Now, if you're reading a paragraph on the writing and language test and you see numbers like these, they indicate that there's going to be a sentence sequences question coming up, so you can start looking Under certain circumstances when lightning strikes sand or rock, evidence of the strike is left behind in the form of a fulgurite, sometimes called petrified lightning. So we can get some context And as we go, I'm gonna circle pronouns and any kind of transition I'm gonna be looking forĪ weird order of events, unclear pronouns and sentences that need We might wanna look for sentences that are linked by causeĪnd effect relationships or transition words thatĮxpress contrasts or continuity like however or therefore. Transition words and phrases as a way to identify sentences that need toīe next to one another. If the passage says she, for example, we need to know who that she is.

Refer to an antecedent or a noun that comes before it. Order in which events unfold make logical sense? Or are ideas explainedīefore they're introduced? A good way to check for that is to identify unclear pronouns. In chronological order? That is to say, does the

When I go back to the passage I'm gonna look for a few things. Questions like these ask you to look at a paragraph as a whole and evaluate the flow of ideas within it. You're going to see one to two of these on your official SAT.

Because of what it's asking us to do, I can tell that this is a Thing in just a minute but let's talk about what Us to really understand the whole paragraph. Now after sentence one, sentence two or sentence five? This question requires This big, long paragraph and asks where sentenceįour should be placed. Looking at question 38 here, which comes at the end of

Sequence words in writing