<p>Hey everyone, I am using the new 6 ACT Practice Tests book from Barron's, and I just can't figure out why some of the answers are "correct." I am posting the 1st one that I am completely unable to figure out below and will probably add several more as I work through more of this book. If everyone could help me out on these problems, that would be great. Also, feel free to post your own questions to get help. It'll be nice to have all of the hard questions consolidated in one thread.</p>
<p>1st: "I suppose that makes sense, but ______________."</p>
<p>The answer I put is "I'm personally disappointed" but the correct answer is "personally I'm disappointed". Anyone have an idea why? I feel like they both work...</p>
<p>2nd: "...chase him ____________ this will eliminate the monkey's motive for theft."</p>
<p>The answer I put is "out in hopes that", but the "correct" answer is "out, in hopes that" Why is this? My Barron's ACT 36 book said that I should NOT use a comma in this situation...</p>
<p>I see your frustration, but in order to figure this out, can you give us at least 2 full sentences and all of the answer choices?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure there’s a solution to this that we just don’t see yet, but it’s possible that Barron’s was sloppy on editing.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply. For the 1st one, I actually gave the full sentence. The second one’s full sentence is below:</p>
<p>“So now, when a cash-carrying macaque steps into line, special monkey-specific security guards are on have to chase him ____________ this will eliminate the monkey’s motive for theft.”</p>
<p>About providing the other answer choices, I only provided the 2 that actually made any sense at all. The others were obviously not correct, and I don’t know if I should post them because of copyright laws…</p>
<p>here’s my take on this-</p>
<p>1) I believe the answer you chose was actually grammatically correct. you shouldn’t put an adverb in front of the subject without a comma separating them. Barron’s is wrong, or we’re missing something.</p>
<p>2) without the comma, the sentence implies that ‘the hopes’ was of the security guards. from context, I was guess that ‘the hopes’ were of a more omnipotent actor who wanted to eliminate the monkey’s motive for theft.</p>
<p>post some more, hope we all can help!</p>
<p>Thanks! You are a savior.</p>
<p>I don’t exactly get your explanation for #2 though… Aren’t the “hopes” those of the security guards? I think that it is a bit ridiculous of them to say that they are of some omnipotent actor.</p>
<p>Also, I have a new question:</p>
<p>The sentence is quoted below</p>
<p>“Social networking isn’t just about attention; it’s also about making other people think that you’re having more fun than they are.”</p>
<p>The questions asks which of the following alternatives would NOT be acceptable (I just put the two questionable answers):</p>
<p>A) “Social networking isn’t just about attention, you see, it’s also about making other people think that you’re having more fun than they are.”</p>
<p>B) “Social networking isn’t just about attention—it’s also about making other people think that you’re having more fun than they are.”</p>
<p>I put A as the answer, but the book says that it’s incorrect because it has a comma splice. Okay, I get that, but you can’t connect two independent clauses with a dash like in “B” either, can you? It says that B is the correct answer…</p>
<p>Some of barrons questions are so ■■■■■■■■ the ****ed me off. don’t expect every one of their questions to make sense, most of them do, some of them don’t because they aren’t the real company that makes the test.</p>
<p>Ya, I took a test from the red book and missed only 2 questions… I missed 10 in Barron’s</p>
<p>Does anyone have any experience with this particular review book from Barron’s?</p>
<p>I did it. Don’t stress over it, ignore the question if it doesn’t make sense. Like I said Barrons doesn’t know everything.</p>