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1 ACT English

2 *Pause at each underline portion *Identify the issue and then go to the question.

3 Read the answer choices looking for the pattern Rule out choices that don’t address the issue

4 *Test your answer in the sentence *This step may be skipped when you’ve the first two steps and the answer seems quite obvious.

5 Word Choice, Verb Tense, and Idiom issues

6 These questions ask you to find the right subject-verb agreement, pronoun agreement, or use of words in context.

7  The train whistle in the station.  The train whistles in the station.

8  The players and his or her coaches celebrated the end of the season at a banquet.  The players and their coaches celebrated the end of the season at a banquet.

9  At the zoo, Minh watched the otters. They are playing, swimming, and eating.  While the boy has been at school, his little sister colored on his desk.  At the zoo, Minh watched the otters. They were playing, swimming, and eating.  While the boy was at school, his little sister colored on his desk.

10  Our senior economics seminar is much like a debating a club than a high-school class.  Everyone regarded him to be a genius.  Our senior economics seminar is more like a debating club than a high-school class.  Everyone regarded him as a genius.

11 Conjunctions and Wordiness

12  Conjunction questions will be asking you to choose a conjunction because one is missing or the one used does not fit the meaning of the whole sentence.

13  She is allergic to flowers, she always buys bouquets for presents.  She is allergic to flowers, yet she always buys bouquets for presents.  Liliana studied diligently, yet she wanted to become a physician.  Liliana studied diligently, because she wanted to become a physician.

14  AC T-wordiness questions are asking you to choose the most concise way to express an idea.  There are different reasons a sentence could be too wordy: too many words; repetitive words’ or there are words (or whole sentences) that are irrelevant.

15  Regardless of the fact that it is two below zero, the mail has to be delivered.  Although it is two below zero, the mail still has to be delivered.  The baby fussed and cried and sobbed and made a lot of noise.  The baby cried loudly.  Tessa was quite happy to be at her grandparents’ again, and it was very cloudy.  * Omit underlined portion.


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