"Add-on sentence" Questions
Wordiness Questions
Punctuation
"Correct-word choice" Questions
Test Taking Tips and Strategies
100
Needs to have a subject and a verb.
What is sentence?
100
A grammatical error in which extra words/phrases are added to a sentence unnecessarily.
What is wordiness?
100
The apostrophe replaces the missing letter or letters.
What is contractions?
100
A fancy synonym for “word choice”
What is diction?
100
By eating this in the morning of the test it can help the brain and give benefits.
What is protein?
200
A sentence that has more than one independent clause - meaning two subjects and two verbs.
What is compound sentences?
200
Approach each question with the mindset that shorter=better.
What is wordiness strategy?
200
Basically wishy-washy periods (or so their detractors claim)
What is semicolons?
200
Space between rows
What is aisle?
200
Studies have shown improvement in testing scores when the students drink what throughout the test.
What is water?
300
These clauses aren't necessary for the sentence to make sense; instead, they add extra information.
What is relative clauses?
300
Questions on the ACT English section are fairly common.
What is redundancy?
300
Easy to mix up with semicolons because the two punctuation marks look similar and have similar names.
What is colons?
300
Is used to show a comparison.
What is than?
300
When inspecting the instructions use what steps.
What is RUN?
400
An incomplete sentence.
What is fragment?
400
Answer choice maintains the meaning of the original sentence and is grammatically correct.
What is shortest?
400
Strange and flexible punctuation mark
What is dashes?
400
Is used for showing what happens next.
What is then?
400
Begin taking the ACT using what steps.
What is PASS?
500
Is when two or more sentences run together and are not separated by the correct punctuation.
What is run-on sentence?
500
Determine whether the shortest answer choice is appropriate for the sentence.
What is plug in the shortest answer choice first?
500
The dot at the end of a sentence
What is period?
500
The important distinction here is that “have” is a helping verb, while “of” is a.
What is preposition?
500
A strategy that helps kids identify what the question is really asking them to do... the basic idea is that there are four types of questions.
What is QAR?
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