For anyone taking any standardized test—such as the SAT, ACT, GMAT, Praxis I, GRE, or others—CliffsNotes Verbal Review for Standardized Tests is designed to review, refresh, and reintroduce essential grammar and verbal skills.
Written by test preparation experts, this clear, concise, and easy-to-use guide gives insight into the types of questions you'll face on the exam, and demonstrates how to avoid the common and costly errors that trap the unprepared.
Grammar and usage review
English usage and sentence correction
Timed essay writing
Verbal ability—antonyms, analogies, and sentence completion
Reading comprehension
Strategies for each question type
Practice exercises with hundreds of questions and complete explanations
Parts of speech, adjectives and adverbs, linking verbs, and comparatives and superlatives
Punctuation—using commas, semi-colons, colons, apostrophes, and dashes
Writing narrative, descriptive, analytical, and expository essays
With guidance from CliffsNotes, test takers will feel at home in any standardized-test environment!
