Daily Drill: SAT® Subject-Verb Agreement Practice Question
Also Great Practice for ACT® English
Today’s Daily Drill is a mock SAT® Subject-Verb Agreement question. It follows the digital SAT® format1 but is also great preparation for ACT® English.
For effective time management on test day, you should aim to answer this question correctly in a maximum of 20 seconds.
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Free SAT® Practice Question (mock)
In Randall Morton's 1957 field guide titled The Western Naturalist's Handbook, the ornithologist documented over 3,000 species, including Western Tanager (summer migrant), Tufted Puffin (sea dweller), and Varied Thrush (forest songbird). Such distinctive Western birds, recorded in remarkably sharp detail in The Western Naturalist's Handbook, ______ the regional avian diversity Morton aimed to document in his comprehensive guide.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. showcase
B. has showcased
C. showcases
D. was showcasing
(Answer Explanations and Strategy Brief Below.)
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