<p>Hey, I just got back my ACT test information release information, but am having trouble seeing why I got a couple questions wrong. Please explain the answers to me.</p>
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<p>You panic. You scream, though no one can hear. You think you might become ill.
Furthermore, only seconds pass before the static line, which is a rope attached to you and to the floor of the plane, becomes taut and yanks open your chute automatically.</p>
<p>11.
A. NO CHANGE
B. However,
C. Thus
D. Consequently, (Correct Answer)</p>
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<p>Iago, the villain of the tragedy, Othello strives to undo Othello, a respected general.</p>
<p>38.
A. NO CHANGE
B. tragedy, Othello, (Correct Answer)
C. tragedy Othello,
D. tragedy Othello</p>
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<p>I kinda get the first question, but I need a good explanation. However, I have no clue about the second question. Please help.</p>
<p>I would have said that the first (11) should have been B) "However,". The final sentence is in contrast to the idea of panic and becoming ill.</p>
<p>Also, I'd definitely pick C) "tragedy Othello," for 38. You need a comma at the end of the phrase since there's one at the beginning, but shouldn't need one between tragedy and Othello. If it did, the sentence would imply that Othello is the only tragedy.</p>
<p>Are you sure those are the "correct" answers?</p>
<p>I'm pretty dumb, I entered the answers incorrectly, you were right on both accounts PeteSAT. I thank you for your explanations, and welcome any further elaboration you can provide. Thanks.</p>
<p>Consequently, thus and furthermore all indicate a causality or at least a continuity with the idea of panic and feeling ill. The next sentence talks about the parachute opening...presumably eliciting a sense of relief from the feeling of falling, therefor a contrast. Only However indicates a contrast.</p>
<p>In the second case, the main subject-verb is "Iago strives..." The phrase ", the villain of the tragedy Othello," is just a descriptive phrase that describes Iago. It needs to be set of at the beginning and end by a comma (remember that you can't separate a subject and verb with a single comma.)</p>
<p>If you said "the tragedy, Othello", you would be indicating that there was only one tragedy...one which happened to be Othello. (That would be perfectly OK, for example, describing a play festival that had only one tragedy and lots of comedies.) If you said "the tragedy Othello", you're using "tragedy" to further modify "Othello".</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>Thank you, I get the othello one and the transition one now. I blanked out and forgot that tragedy could modify othello, for othello could be the name of a tragedy. I, for some reason, would mentally seperate the two and not allow them to be thought of as a single statement.</p>
<p>Thank you so much.</p>