June 2009 ACT English Discussion

<p>No… that was important to the plot of the essay.</p>

<p>Yeah I was referring to the “In still other…” question. I said it was correct. It just sounded kind of weird to me.</p>

<p>ya b/c u had to know that luigi was his motorized chair</p>

<p>no i don’t mean “what luigi was”…i mean when he explained <em>why</em> he named it luigi</p>

<p>when talking a/b like plans for the subway they wanted u to replace the word “that” with like “it” or “those”</p>

<p>did any1 put those?</p>

<p>i put “it.” i think i know which one you’re talking about, like it had to go through a lot of challenges or something like that.</p>

<p>I know I put “it” for one question.</p>

<p>I’m not sure if that’s the one you’re mentioning.</p>

<p>I’m pretty sure, however, I never put “those” as an answer.</p>

<p>I said hyphen was incorrect but I don’t remember what I put</p>

<p>I think the answer was it.</p>

<p>well it couldnt have been it…the word we were looking for was referring to a plural entity (it was like “plans”)</p>

<p>RPizzle i don’t think we’re talking about the same question</p>

<p>^right. there were multiple things = those.</p>

<p>Was the one with the engineer then his name correct? I thought it should have been “The engineer, insertnamehereiforgetit, blah blah” but there was no choice set up like that and the others didn’t make sense to me</p>

<p>i took out all the commas</p>

<p>You just picked the one without any commas.</p>

<p>And I’m pretty sure it was “it”…</p>

<p>the one with the engineer then his name was no commas…</p>

<p>So was hyphen question was correct?</p>

<p>Yes. ^</p>

<p>It was an abrupt change in thought.</p>

<p>For those v. it, it was it, because, yes, it was talking about plans, but it wouldn’t say “THOSE took years to overcome challenges, etc.” It took years. Definitely “it.”</p>

<p>deeds1, it is also a rule that every pronoun has a different noun that it refers to. What does the “it” refer to? The proposals… The proposals is plural so it must be “those”. If you reread the sentence with “those” you would see it still sounds correct. Plus, the question is asking what is grammatically correct in written english, not spoken english.</p>