ACT English Review Questions and Answers

Multiple choice - youre running out of time, what do you choose? "delete" or the shortest word True or false - grammatically wrong things look wrong true If you get stuck... 1. What do you have to do? 2. Think of the "whole" passage 3. Make a prediction Three main steps for success 1. Read and identify 2. Eliminate ones that don't identify 3. Chose the one that sounds the most correct Read and identify when you see a number, stop reading. If you can answer the question with the information you already know then do so Eliminate remove the ones that seem incorrect Chose the one that sounds right 1. Answer makes sense when read with the correction 2. As short as possible but still gets the information through 3. Relates to the passage overall Fragments are missing... a subject and a predicate verb in an independent clause What is missing in this sentence? Running down the street a subject - fragment error What is missing in this sentence? Seth running down the street predicate verb - fragment error Runon sentence has more than one independent clause Ways to fix a run-on sentence period to separate the 2, semicolon, make one clause dependent of the other, add fanboys conjunctions, use a dash Parallelism: lists chloe formulated a question, conducted background research and constructed a hypothesis before starting the experiment