<p>Here is the 2012-2013 ACT</p>
<p>Look at #4. </p>
<p>I ride this trail nearly every [day-not on a bike,] but on "Luigi" </p>
<p>I thought when you have these kinds of phrases they either have to be both dashes or both commas? Every other time that tip has worked but it evidently doesn't in this case seeing that F. No change is the answer?</p>
<p>Please help?</p>
<h1>26 I really need help with too.</h1>
<p>Brightly lit stations welcomed the public, many
[of them] were skeptical of traveling underground.</p>
<p>I keep have recurring problems with who/whom and it would be so dumb to get it wrong on the real test because I know it’s a problem.</p>
<p>In this case of whom was the right answer.</p>
<p>I picked of who. I asked myself who were skeptical of traveling underground? I thought THEY((the public) a subject pronoun) were skeptical. It doesn’t make sense because I would’ve asked myself who is doing the verb and what is the verb acting upon. In this case the verb is acting upon the public making them the object right so this leads me to believe the answer is of whom, which it is. But how do you explain the They were/them were dilemma. I’ve had a similar problem and I’ve posted it in another thread. I will copy and paste it below here.</p>
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<li>George believed that while the renting of property produced an increase in land values and benefited property owners; higher land values were placed on the working class, [who] were asked to pay more rent. </li>
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<p>The right answer was who but I picked whom. I don’t understand. I asked myself who is being asked to pay more rent? The working class is. So, doesn’t that make them the object pronoun meaning they should be referred to with whom?</p>
<p>(1) Brightly lit stations welcomed the public, many [of who/whom] were skeptical of traveling underground.</p>
<p>Is it “who” or “whom” in the phrase “of …”. The guiding rule is quite simple. “of <something>” is a prepositional phrase, and <something> is the object of the preposition. So you need the object form of the applicable pronoun, which in this case is “whom”.</something></something></p>
<p>Other example here would be: about whom, for whom, etc. Also “for whomever”, “to whomever” etc.</p>
<p>(2) George believed that while the renting of property produced an increase in land values and benefited property owners; higher land values were placed on the working class, [who/whom] were asked to pay more rent. </p>
<p>Is it “who” or “whom” in “who/whom were asked to pay more rent”? Here the guiding rule is also quite simple. “who/whom were asked to pay more rent” is a “dependent clause”, and the preceding clause starting with "George … " is an independent clause. A clause, independent or dependent, has all the elements of a sentence – a subject - verb - object. Ask yourself “what is the subject” of the clause “who/whom were asked …”. It must be “who”? There is nothing else in the clause that can be the subject.</p>
<p>If you need a quick verification of whether who or whom is right try substituting we or us of who or whom. If we sounds right the answer is who and if us sounds right the answer is whom.</p>
<p>If anyone wants to help with this too that’s fine but I’d prefer the two questions above over anything.</p>
<p>1,Got it right and picked B but only because there wasn’t a choice with a comma sandwich with curving and bending in it. I thought that could have been taken out right?
4. I thought you said that when you have these kinds of phrases they either have to be both dashes or both commas? Every other time that tip has worked but it evidently doesn’t in this case seeing that F. no change is the answer. I got this right, but I want to go over it.
11. I picked C and don’t understand why A. no change is right. I thought the whole paragraph is talking about nature. Is A right because it says later in the sentence “their hurry” so it’s referring back to some group and the only thing that can be referred to like that is bicyclists?
26. I picked H. was able to narrow it down easily to G and H. Keep have recurring problems with whom and who. How the heck do you distinguish whom and who. I really don’t want to get this type of question wrong on the test. I’ve seen this who/whom problem multiple times and it would be really dumb to let this problem get me I don’t just want to keep ignoring the who/whom thing.
31.Got this right but would like a nice explanation. Is it because the elite galleries were catering the to the upper class and now they’re now anymore and B is the only choice that says that the upeer class isn’t being catered anymore?
38. I got this right but only due to Process of Elimination. I thought when you have two adjectives describing one noun you need a comma between the adjectives. In this case the right answer was the one without commas. All the other choices were dumb so that was the only reason I got to F but it a choice was there like [various, prestigious] I would have picked that one.
56. I have absolutely no idea how to approach this question. What rules do you even use here?
63. How the heck is A the correct answer? Is it because “or constellation” is unnecessary and a bit redundant because pattern pretty much means the same thing?
67. I understand why I got this wrong. In the question it asked about what would connect it to what followed later on in the same sentence but I referred back to the preceding sentence where is was talking about many viewers around the glove. It should’ve been arglicultural thought because in this sentence at the end they were talking about a three-pronged plow.
69. How the heck is A the right answer here as well? You’re allowed to say “In still other parts of Japan”, am I the only one who feels that sounds a little awkward?</p>
<p>6x Total Score:32</p>
<p>Thanks @fogcity. </p>
<p>The we/us for who/whom substitution trick seems to work.</p>
<p>Still a little iffy on the subject on 48 because I thought of it as what is the verb acting upon. Like who/whom is being asked something? The working class are, aren’t they? So that’s what made me think they were the object. Any more tips to help clear that up?</p>
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<p>11) Basically, the way i saw it was that: yes, because of “their hurry”, it would make the most sense for bicyclists to streak past. And the following sentence is that “Luigi can go fast…etc”, so it would kind of make sense that this contrasting statements relates to the bikes.</p>
<p>31) So, the preceding statement said that his frescoes were also on the outside walls etc, viewable by common people. This thus brought art out “of elite galleries” that catered to the upper class. If you read it and think about it, it makes sense.
It says it brought that art from the elite galleries, and “literally” made it available to the public.
Sorry if that’s a choppy explanation, but in my mind it sounds right.</p>
<p>38) ehh sorry…I don’t know the technical rules here but, like you said, the other choices were stupid. I kinda followed the concept of “A big fat man” “Many prominent figures” etc…</p>
<p>56) Again, i don’t know the technical rules here. When i read it, i knew atop had to come first. I believe it needs to follow an order of most specific, specific, broad. “atop the hill” “in the field” “behind Joans”. </p>
<p>63) So previously in the passage, it had only referred to the alignments of stars as “patterns”. In the concluding sentence, it specifies a name used for these patterns.
If you read it in a conversational tone, there would be a pause after pattern where you would state “or constellation”.</p>
<p>69) So for this, because the author is basically naming off places where these stars are viewed as diff. things, it’s as if he was going “first, second, finally”.
Choice B is stupid
If you picked C, you may not have noticed that it was talking about a completely different interpretation of the stars. It had said that in blah blah, these stars are a Kimono. Because this is an entirely separate interp. of the stars, it is in a different location. Thus, “in still other parts”. Yea it sounds awk but…it 1) makes the most sense of the 4 2) Logically, it follows 3) technically it’s grammatically correct.</p>
<p>I apologize if my explanations aren’t extremely clear, but I tried to explain it as how my mind thought about it…
I got a 35 by missing 4 and 12…</p>
<p>If you wanna explain 12 that would be nice hahah</p>
<p>For number twelve, there needs to be some kind of separation, so it cannot be F. NO CHANGE. J is eliminated because it is a comma splice and grammatically incorrect. G is incorrect because there are two independent clauses. Although it is often correct to set off a conjunctive adverb such as ‘however’ with commas, when ‘however’ comes between two independent clauses in a sentence, it would need either a semicolon before it or else a period before it and a capital letter to create two separate sentences. This leaves H, the period make two concise logical sentences.</p>