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.