SAT Reading / Text Structure

Overall Text Structure

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functionThe job a sentence, phrase, or detail does in a text, such as giving an example, challenging a view, or limiting a claim.

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Tell a passage’s structure apart from its contentRetell what the passage does from start to finish in general words, leaving out its names, places, and numbers.
Read structure choices as outlines of the whole passageRead each answer choice as a list of steps and check those steps in order against the passage from first sentence to last.
Predict a passage’s structure before you read the choicesName each sentence’s job in a few words of your own, notice where “however” or “but” turns the passage, and join those jobs in order.
Catch structure choices that skip the ending or add a stepMatch each part of an answer choice to a sentence in the passage, and cross out any choice with a part you can’t match or that stops before the last sentence.

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