- What it targets: Tricky commas and agreement.
- The Trick: SAT questions love to insert long chunks of "inessential information" (like descriptions) between a subject and a verb to confuse you. Put your fingers over (or cross out) everything between commas, dashes, or parentheses. What's left is the core sentence. If you read the sentence without "the fat" and it makes sense, the punctuation is correct.