ORGANIZATIONWriting

Sentence Organization

•Involves the placement of a modifier with a sentence

Example

•Austen wrote about a society of manners, in which love triumphs over a rigid social hierarchy despite confinement to her drawing room.

•A. No change•B. Place after love•C. Place after Austen•D. Place after society

•Answer: C

•About ½ of the organization questions will ask you to reorder sentences.

•To do this:•Locate your topic sentence•Then, eliminate answers according to that

first sentence

Example• (1) Helga has been living on a farm with her 9

children, when she read of a $10,000 prize that would be given to a woman who walked across the country. (2) Because her farm was facing foreclosure, she decided that walking in a bicycle skirt for that kind of money was a small price to pay for a greater reward. (3) At the time, this type of skirt was inappropriate. (4) The only requirement was that she wear a modern, newfangled bicycle skirt as she traveled.

• Write order you think is right

•Most logical order:•A. NO CHANGE•B. 1, 3, 2, 4•C. 3, 2, 4, 1•D. 1, 4, 3, 2

•Answer: D

•Passage organization questions will appear at the end of the passage.

•They will ask you to insert a sentence in the passage.

•OR•Move a paragraph to a different location

in the passage.