When everything is underlined - How to best approach?

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I use to have to spend a lot of time on SC problems where the whole sentence is underlined. Especially I get confused struggling to read through all of them, and try to find subject-verb etc. And when I don't find the error by checking e.g. S-V I get even more stressed because I know I have spend quite much time to check through all answers.

Are there any common grammar patterns that usually appear in problems where the whole line is underlined which I should start to look for first in order?

For example, should I begin to check for these rules in order?:
Subject-Verb?
Meaning?
... ?
... ?

Or there might not be any common pattern in these problems? :roll:

grateful to any suggestions on how to approach these problems!
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by Jim@Grockit » Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:40 am
Always read the sentence first and identify any errors you can. When the whole sentence is underlined, go to the answer choices sooner and look for splits (groups of answers with similar structure); hopefully you will be able to eliminate several at once.

Subject-verb and the placement of modifiers and prepositional phrases are common grammatical issues tested, but anything can happen when the whole sentence is underlined.

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