ACT Prep Class Master Study Set
Different languages value different things. What does English value?
Beauty and sound
Courtesy and honor
Flexibility and innovation
Simplicity and directness—ANSWER--Simplicity and directness
When in doubt
look it up.
shake it up.
take it out.
make a guess.—ANSWER--take it out.
The _______answer is usually right.
most detailed
,shortest
longest
first—ANSWER--shortest
How much of the English test deals with CRR questions?
one half
one third
all of it
one quarter—ANSWER--one third
Does the ACT prefer active or passive sentences?—ANSWER--active
What is the most powerful part of an English sentence?
conjunctions
verbs
nouns
adjectives—ANSWER--verbs
If the ACT uses these punctuation marks in a sentence, it's a clue that you
should really consider omit, if it is an answer choice.
semicolons
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,parentheses
dashes
commas—ANSWER--parentheses
Consider this sentence: "The letter was written by him before he
discovered her mistake." Which option is a good way to make this sentence
to be more concise?
She made a mistake before he wrote the letter.
The letter was written by him before her mistake was discovered.
Before he discovered her mistake, the letter was written by him.
He wrote the letter before he discovered her mistake.—ANSWER--He wrote
the letter before he discovered her mistake.
Consider this text:
My route home from school takes me 1.(by the cemetery, where dead
people are buried.) Sometimes, it's creepy and foreboding, but other times,
it's the most festive place in the landscape. 2.(On Valentine's Day, February
14, the headstones were festooned with bright metallic balloons,) dancing
, in the wind, longing to be part of the sky, tethered to the ground by tiny
strings usually fastened around vases of vivid roses . . .
What changes, if any, would you make for the first underlined portion?
Omit the underlined portion
by the cemetery where dead people are buried.
by the cemetery.
No change—ANSWER--by the cemetery
Consider this text:
My route home from school takes me 1. ( by the cemetery, where dead
people are buried.) Sometimes, it's creepy and foreboding, but other times,
it's the most festive place in the landscape. 2. ( On Valentine's Day,
February 14, the headstones were festooned with bright metallic balloons,)
dancing in the wind, longing to be part of the sky, tethered to the ground by
tiny strings usually fastened around vases of vivid roses . . .
What changes, if any, would you make for the second underlined portion?
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Different languages value different things. What does English value?
Beauty and sound
Courtesy and honor
Flexibility and innovation
Simplicity and directness—ANSWER--Simplicity and directness
When in doubt
look it up.
shake it up.
take it out.
make a guess.—ANSWER--take it out.
The _______answer is usually right.
most detailed
,shortest
longest
first—ANSWER--shortest
How much of the English test deals with CRR questions?
one half
one third
all of it
one quarter—ANSWER--one third
Does the ACT prefer active or passive sentences?—ANSWER--active
What is the most powerful part of an English sentence?
conjunctions
verbs
nouns
adjectives—ANSWER--verbs
If the ACT uses these punctuation marks in a sentence, it's a clue that you
should really consider omit, if it is an answer choice.
semicolons
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protected by copyright law, Copyrighted By Brittie Donald
,parentheses
dashes
commas—ANSWER--parentheses
Consider this sentence: "The letter was written by him before he
discovered her mistake." Which option is a good way to make this sentence
to be more concise?
She made a mistake before he wrote the letter.
The letter was written by him before her mistake was discovered.
Before he discovered her mistake, the letter was written by him.
He wrote the letter before he discovered her mistake.—ANSWER--He wrote
the letter before he discovered her mistake.
Consider this text:
My route home from school takes me 1.(by the cemetery, where dead
people are buried.) Sometimes, it's creepy and foreboding, but other times,
it's the most festive place in the landscape. 2.(On Valentine's Day, February
14, the headstones were festooned with bright metallic balloons,) dancing
, in the wind, longing to be part of the sky, tethered to the ground by tiny
strings usually fastened around vases of vivid roses . . .
What changes, if any, would you make for the first underlined portion?
Omit the underlined portion
by the cemetery where dead people are buried.
by the cemetery.
No change—ANSWER--by the cemetery
Consider this text:
My route home from school takes me 1. ( by the cemetery, where dead
people are buried.) Sometimes, it's creepy and foreboding, but other times,
it's the most festive place in the landscape. 2. ( On Valentine's Day,
February 14, the headstones were festooned with bright metallic balloons,)
dancing in the wind, longing to be part of the sky, tethered to the ground by
tiny strings usually fastened around vases of vivid roses . . .
What changes, if any, would you make for the second underlined portion?
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