Test Format
This English section of the ACT is ____ minutes long and has ____ test items.
What is 35 minutes?
What is 50 test items?
To come to a conclusion after gathering your own evidence. To make an educated guess.
What is Infer/ to make an inference?
Use a ___ after a complete sentence before a list or clarification.
What is a colon? :
Jumping, Fishing, Running, Yelling, are all examples of.
What is parallelism?
If I want to know the main purpose of a passage, or the central idea, I should look in the ______ and locate the _______.
What is the First Paragraph Introduction), and the Thesis statement?
Longer passages have about ___test items.
Shorter passages have about ___test items.
What is 9?
What is 5?
The authors attitude, emotion or feeling towards the subject matter.
What is Tone?
A ___ is not strong enough to separate two independent clauses on its own.
What is a comma?
True / False
Dangling Modifiers do not modify the correct subject.
What is True?
Correct the following sentence.
I found the awesome ACT English jeopardy game to be incredibly affective.
What is- I found the awesome ACT English jeopardy game to be incredibly effective.
This Reading section of the ACT is ____ minutes long and has ____ test items. This section consists of ___ passages.
What is 40 minutes, 36 items, 4 passages.
To claim the opposite of. Oppose/ Dispute
Contradict
You can use a ___ instead of " and" to join to complete related sentences.
What is a semicolon? ;
To rearrange words, sentences or paragraphs to establish flow is called.
What is Chronological order?
Correct the following sentence.
Out of pizza, hamburgers, and hot dogs, I like eating pizza more.
Out of pizza, hamburgers, and hot dogs, I like eating pizza the most.
True / False
The reading section has two types of essays, Informational and Narrative.
What is True?
A statement that consists of: Twisted details, flipped answers, agreeable but not evidenced, accurate but does not answer the question asked is called.
What is a Distractor?
Do not use apostrophes with possessive __________ such as mine, hers, his, ours, theirs. These ______ show ownership.
What are pronouns?
Coordinating Conjunctions connect words, phrases, and clauses of equal importance. Often remembered by the acronym FANBOY. What does FANBOY stand for?
What is
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet?
Please stop calling me I no longer consider you a friend.
Please stop calling me (:) (-) I no longer consider you a friend.
Name the types of essays that are including on the English portion of the ACT.
Hint: One is Personal Narrative, what are the other two.
What are Informational and Argumentative.
Something unnecessary, repetitive, exceeds what is needed.
What is Redundant?
The _____ is the most versatile punctuation but rarely used.
Hint- Deep pause
What is a dash?
Conjunctive adverbs, words or phrases that connect ideas, sentences, and paragraphs improving flow.
Hint: Therefor, However, In addition to, Finally
What are transition words?
An earthquake that is 8 on the Richter scale a truly massive disaster indeed, will almost certainly be a major news story throughout the world.
What is- An earthquake that is 8 on the Richter scale - a truly massive disaster indeed- will almost certainly be a major news story throughout the world.