ACT English Strategies
How many questions are on the English test?
What is 75?
What does a comma indicate?
What is a PAUSE?
What is subject verb agreement?
What is when your subjects and verbs agree in number?
A complete sentence must do of have what three things?
What is a complete thought, subject, and verb?
What are the three P's for Apostrophes?
What is Plural, Possessives, and Plural-Possessives?
True or False. Is it best to leave some answers blank when you run out of time?
What is the correct way to punctuate the sentence?
Mr. Barber is mean, witty and nonchalant.
A. NO CHANGE
B. mean, witty, and nonchalant.
C. mean witty and nonchalant.
D. ,mean, witty and, nonchalant.
What is B?
Does the following sentence have correct subject verb agreement? If not, how would you correct it?
April and Clinton is very smart, mature, and creative.
What is No. Change IS to ARE
What are 3 ways to correct run-ons?
What is add a period between two complete thought, add a comma plus a conjunction between the two complete thoughts, simply add a semicolon between the two complete thoughts.
What is possession?
How long do you have to take the ACT English test?
What is 45 minutes?
A semicolon is used to.....
Separate TWO complete thoughts.
True or False. When your subject ends in "s" the verb will NOT and vice versa.
What is True?
Correct the following run-on sentences.
1. The red SRT is in the parking lot I don't know where the mustang and the maxima are.
2. Lyric was the best student in the class so all the study groups invited her to participate.
3. She found the house once she made it to Olive Branch she didn't think she would ever find it.
1. The red SRT is in the parking lot. I don't know where the mustang and the maxima are.
2. Lyric was the best student in the class, so all the study groups invited her to participate.
3. She found the house once she made it to Olive Branch; she didn't think she would ever find it.
True of False.
Plurals alone, DO have apostrophes.
What is False.
Plurals do NOT have apostrophes
You should pace yourself and not spend too much time on a passage or question. True or False
What is True?
Place the commas correctly. What comma rule is used?
1. Mrs O. who is the assistant principal takes pride in her job.
2. Miss Elzie is nice caring and passionate.
1. Mrs O. ,who is the assistant principal, takes pride in her job. (Appositives)
2. Miss Elzie is nice, caring, and passionate. (Items in a list/series)
What does S.V.A. stand for? 10 seconds to answer
What is Subject Verb Agreement?
How do you correct the following sentence?
Walking into the auditorium dressed in a suit and tie and gave a speech about Breast Cancer Awareness.
A. NO CHANGE
B. The nurse walked into
C. Walked into
D. The nurse into
What is B.
If a noun is plural AND possessive....
What is add an apostrophe AFTER the s.
When an announcement of five minutes remaining occurs, you should
A) take your time and answer all that you can correctly, even if it means leaving some blank
B) Bubble in all the remaining numbers and quit answering questions
C) Continue testing as normal at the same pace
D) Bubble in the answers that you have left and then go back and check all of the answers that you can.
What is D.
What is the correct punctuation in the following sentence?
Mr. Thind teaches Senior Math; and Mr. Barber teaches Senior English.
A. NO CHANGE
B. and
C. ,and
D. ;and,
What is C?
Correct the subject verb agreement in the following sentences. (If correct, write CORRECT) 2 minutes.
1. Kierra like to laugh at everything.
2. Decarlos and Dequavian are cousins.
3. Dasani and Danny is twins.
4.Thaddeus ride the bike through town.
5. Jahmiya and Elisha loves to gossip about everybody's business
1. Kierra likes to laugh at everything.
2. Decarlos and Dequavian are cousins. CORRECT
3. Dasani and Danny are twins.
4.Thaddeus rides the bike through town.
5. Jahmiya and Elisha love to gossip about everybody's business.
1. The students' have voted for Homecoming King/Queen.
2. Mr. Barber's classroom is always smelling good.
3. The childrens' votes were automatically calculated through google forms.
4. The Hawks' fan base was superstitious.
1. The students have voted for Homecoming King/Queen. (No possession)
2. Mr. Barber's classroom is always smelling good. (Correct, possession of the classroom)
3. The children's votes were automatically calculated through google forms. (When the plural noun does not end with a s, add 's)
4. The Hawks' fan base was superstitious. (Correct)