PSAT Writing and Language Question 166: Answer and Explanation

Question: 166

• A. NO CHANGE
• B. The flight director paced
• C. The pacing flight director
• D. The flight director pacing

Correct Answer: B

Explanation:

B

Difficulty: Medium

Category: Sentence Structure: The Basics

Getting to the Answer: Read the sentence and determine whether it is grammatically complete. To form a grammatically complete sentence, you must have an independent clause prior to a colon. As written, the text that comes before the colon is not grammatically complete because it lacks an independent clause with a subject and predicate. Choice (B) correctly adds a verb to the clause before the comma. It also correctly uses the past tense to match with the tense of "hadn't" in the first sentence of the passage.