December 2010 ACT English Discussion

<p>I put chance to experience because it clearly indicated in the following passage that it gave people a chance to experience!!</p>

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Wrong. Whiff was completely used incorrectly while aroma could have fit. Aroma doesn’t necessarily have to be positive.</p>

<p>Also, it said which of these would “NOT” fit in the sentence, not which would “LEAST” fit in the sentence. Aroma did fit in the sentence, though poorly, so it had to be whiff.</p>

<p>lol someone ask silverturtle what he thinks of the aroma/whiff issue.</p>

<p>I put chance to experience, since it was the best to explain that during the depression these people didn’t quite get the chance to experience the happiness of being wealthy</p>

<p>Yeah the aroma/whiff issue is definitely one we’re not going to know until results.</p>

<p>In the first para, question 4, which one was not acceptable, was it slight, mildly flimsy?</p>

<p>Team whiff !(only b.c i put it, but aroma makes sense now) lol and the monopoly one was talking about how it was originally a game created by Maggie or w.e to teach people about finances or financial responsibility, but it changed to people basically being known for and people liking it because of money and property or something … so I put celebration… Maybe I’m confusing two things but I remember thinking about that.</p>

<p>It was “celebration of” because it was asking for the most positive choice.</p>

<p>But whiff can be used as a noun…you can’t just go by what it sounds like, although I did go with whiff, I feel there is a better case for aroma. No use in debating now.</p>

<p>and yes, positive was the most [adj] I had referenced before.</p>

<p>MAGI’S LAST DANCE! That’s what was the name of that READING #1 in the reading section. I just remembered that, in case anyone wants to look it up.</p>

<h1>aa I wasn’t sure but I went with mildly flimsy since that made no effing sense for a river.</h1>

<p>I think it was def. celebration.</p>

<p>ANYWAYS, here are the teams</p>

<p>Team Aroma:
Mastablasta
To the top</p>

<p>Team Whiff:
ACT Tester
Mayday Parade (good band)</p>

<p>(Put your vote for one of the two and I’ll add you!)</p>

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This is English lol. And yeah, it was mildly flimsy.</p>

<p>I think the issue people are having with the aroma/whiff question is confusion over the part of speech being used.</p>

<p>The sentence context was “There was a ______ of [negative adjectives] in the air” or something to that effect. You really can’t use “whiff” to fill in that blank, so whiff was the right answer.</p>

<p>Team Whiff</p>

<p>Team Aroma:
Mastablasta
To the top</p>

<p>Team Whiff:
ACT Tester
Mayday Parade (good band)
Tennis
IAstudent</p>

<p>I ended up guess blindly on the last 4, what were the letters to those answers?</p>

<p>i put “has taught” because i think the paragraph was refering to her in a present tense way. ans also i think the last sentence of the paragrpah had a present tense verb so in order to maintain parallelism i put “has taught”.</p>

<p>for the 1st paragrpah, there was a question asking where would it be appropiate to start a new paragrpah i said sentence 4. i think it was right after the sentence talking bout traffic and before the sentence talking about how she saw boats and stuff. in that same set of question there was a question asking about replacement of the word gently EXCEPT, i think the answer was “mildly flimsy”. ummm, in the same set of questions there were answers “cars lining up (i think it was keep it the same, A)” and i think the very first question was supposed to be in past tense. </p>

<p>anyone confirm the answers?</p>

<p>Haha GREAT band :)</p>

<p>TEAM Whiff- as in whiff did not fit in</p>