Are You Ready for the SAT & ACT? Building Critical Reading Skills for Rising High School Students by The Princeton Review

Author:The Princeton Review [Review, The Princeton]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Itzy, Kickass.to
ISBN: 9780804125222
Amazon: B00J1ISLRG
Publisher: Random House Digital
Published: 2014-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

SUMMARY

If you need more details, add them back in as needed after simplifying the sentence.

• Look at descriptive phrases and prepositional phrases, which will give you more information about tough vocabulary words.

• Look at conjunctions in a sentence that might give you a clue about whether the different parts say similar or different things. If one part of a sentence is easy to understand, a conjunction can help you make sense of the other part.

DEALING WITH PARAGRAPHS

Now that we have learned to pick apart the pieces of a tough sentence to better understand it, let’s examine how we can use some of the same ideas to help us understand a tough paragraph. Here is an example.

The process of suburbanization that began in the second quarter of the nineteenth century was fundamentally linked to the nascence of the industrial city, and both of these advances were bound up with developments in transportation. Up until that time, the typical city had been a compact cluster of small buildings, which residents navigated primarily on foot; goods were moved by horse and cart. But as factories were built near waterways and rail stations on the outskirts of towns, more people arrived in the cities in search of work, which led to an increased demand for housing. As housing expanded around the factories, city borders expanded and better, more efficient transportation was developed to move people and goods around the newly enlarged cities.

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