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How many multiple choice questions are found on the English Section of the ACT?
What is 75
Just over 100 years ago, one of the most important
medical discoveries, in modern times relieved the suffering
and saved the lives of untold thousands.
A. NO CHANGE
B. discoveries in modern, times
C. discoveries, in modern times,
D. discoveries in modern times
D. discoveries in modern times
In the story of Lightning and Thunder, Bryan, an award winner shares a Nigerian legend about a mother sheep and her only son. What is the most appropriate change to "Bryan, an award winner"?
A) No Change
B) Bryan an award winner
C) Bryan, an award winner,
D) Bryan an award winner,
C) Bryan, an award winner,
With temperatures rising in the butterflies' southernmost habitats, plants that attract them are drying up, eliminating the insects' food source at the caterpillar stage. What is the best change for "rising"?
A) No change
B) having rose
C) raising
D) risen
A) No change
When you use the same grammatical form to express equally important ideas, this is called.........
What is Parallelism or Parallel Structure
How many minutes will you have to take the English portion of the ACT?
What is 45 minutes
It was a commonly accepted that yellow fever was
spread by contact with infected items; such as the clothing or blankets of a person with yellow fever.
A. NO CHANGE
B. items. Such as
C. items, such as
D. items such as being
C. items, such as
The artificial light that shines down on three customers and a waiter, sets off the dark world outside. What change should be made to "customers and a waiter,"?
A) NO CHANGE
B) customers and, a waiter,
C) customers, and a waiter
D) customers and a waiter
D) customers and a waiter
Light coming from a single window creates large rectangles that seems to inhabit the room. What change should be made to "seems"?
A)NO CHANGE
B) seem
C) appears
D) appeared
B) seem
Two complete sentences joined together using only a comma is punctuated INCORRECTLY! This is called a....
What is a COMMA SPLICE
The ACT English sections is formatted into how many passages?
What is 5 passages
Although I didn't like the sunburn I loved the warm feeling of the sun.
What is the best change for "sunburn"?
A No Change
B sunburn;
C , sunburn,
D sunburn,
D) sunburn,
Lee presented complex issues, such as interest rates, in a confident, straightforward, manner. What change should be made to "in a confident, straightforward, manner."?
A) No change
B) in a confident, straightforward manner.
C) in a confident straightforward manner.
D) in a confident straightforward, manner.
B) in a confident, straightforward manner.
After struggling financially in the Depression of 1873, she and her husband, moved to a farm in Kansas. What is the correct change for "she and her husband,"?
A) NO CHANGE
B) her and her husband,
C) she and her husband
D) her husband and her
C) she and her husband
What type of conjunctions are in the following list?
although, if, because, after, before, since, while, though, as though, as, as if
What are subordinate conjunctions
The ACT does not like redundancy. What type of answers are the best answers in the English Section?
What are short and concise answers
Their caution frustrates Parmesan she believes such a mindset ignores the fact that the alternative outcome could be extinction. What change should be made to "Parmesan she believes"?
A) No change
B) Parmesan who, believing
C) Parmesan. She believes
D) Parmesan, she believes
C) Parmesan. She believes
A woman, with legs drawn up sits on a bed facing an open window. What change should be made to "woman, with legs drawn up sits"?
A) NO CHANGE
B) woman, with legs drawn up sits,
C) woman, with legs drawn up, sits
D) woman with legs drawn up, sits
C) woman, with legs drawn up, sits
On the other hand, those currently living now in the cool, wet climates of northern California and Canada are faring better. What is the best change for "currently living now"?
A) No Change
B) living currently today
C) currently living
D) currently now
C) currently living
a pair of commas used to set off non-essential words or phrases in a sentence, such as:
The sunset, glowing in the evening dusk, looked like a ball of fire.
What is a parenthetical comma
The ACT English section is divided into two major skill groups. Those groups are called.........
What is grammar/usage/mechanics and Rhetorical Skills
Once at the resort, skiers and snowboarders rely on extensive networks of energy-hungry chairlifts--gondolas and high-speed quads--to whisk them up to the top of the mountain. Often, on the other hand, the very snow they relish on the trip back down the mountain has been artificially made using powerful snow cannons that suck water from creeks and streams. Which choice is best to correct "on the other hand,"?
A) No Change
B) nonetheless,
C) however,
D) Delete the portion
D) Delete the portion
Hopper once stated that human figures interested him less than the light in a scene he believed light was the dramatic element that conveyed vitality and immediacy in a painting. What change should be made to "scene he"?
A) NO CHANGE
B) scene, he
C) scene. He
D) scene that he
C) scene. He
He has proposed a way to save the quarter-sized butterflies and that doing so, maintain biodiversity. What change should be made to "that doing, so"?
A) No Change
B) by which so doing,
C) in which doing so,
D) in doing so,
D) in doing so,
The noun or subject in which a PRONOUN is referring to or refers back to in a sentences is called....................
What is an antecedent