I don't know about the SAT, but California's new high school exit exam definitely tests grammar/usage issues. Our local paper recently gave an example in which the test-taker had to choose the "correct" option between "fewer" and "less" ("fewer", whether we might bemoan the fact or not, seems to be dying in American English.) Dr. Johanna Rubba, Associate Professor, Linguistics Linguistics Minor Advisor English Department California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo E-mail: [log in to unmask] Tel.: 805.756.2184 Dept. Ofc. Tel.: 805.756.2596 Dept. Fax: 805.756.6374 URL: http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/