Impossible Grammar Question (June SAT)

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]Grammar section, no transitions, jump straight to your blank space sentence.

[00:00:04]Often, interplay between the work shimmering overtones and resonant partials parentheses don't matter and its meticulously calibrated harmonic textures blank an atmosphere of glacial luminosity.

[00:00:18]So, let's get rid of everything extra before we analyze this so we can get rid of what's in parentheses.

[00:00:23]Get rid of all your adjectives. We don't need this. Get rid of shimmering, resonant, and even often. We'll start at interplay.

[00:00:31]And then also to clarify in your hard module two of grammar, if I see verbs, there really is only two problems you're going to be getting.

[00:00:40]Subject-verb agreement and ing verbs.

[00:00:43]So, we would only ever answer an ing verb if my sentence already has an active verb.

[00:00:49]So, our subject is all the way from interplay down to textures. So, you can see subject, we are missing a verb here.

[00:00:57]So, it's not going to be this.

[00:00:59]Our other most popular hard module two grammar is subject-verb agreement. That is is my subject plural or singular and then I have to pair it with the correct verb.

[00:01:09]So, in this case, technically if you had to guess, both of these are going to be plural, right? They elicit or they have elicited. So, you could maybe guess A cuz it's the one that stands out.

[00:01:20]But, I want to get even more specific here just in case that wasn't the case.

[00:01:23]Um this is going to be like an interplay problem.

[00:01:27]So, interplay between is going to be a singular start and then listing plural things. They could reward this. They could say the interaction among, right?

[00:01:37]And this would be as opposed to our header noun interplay being plural.

[00:01:41]Imagine they said the interactions between.

[00:01:45]So, as if you ever see a phrase like this like interplay between, this is going to define whether your noun is singular or plural.

[00:01:54]They can list as many things as they want after that. The interplay is going to be a singular noun, so I know it's going to be a licit here.

[00:02:01]If they had something here that was like the interactions between, I'm not sure they would have had this plural. They probably would have had this singular.

[00:02:08]And then it would have been a licit if it was interactions. So that's all. It's going to be a here.