June 2009 ACT English Discussion

<p>Regarding the hyphen question:</p>

<p>I was between that and no punctuation. Intially and for a while I said hyphen was right but I changed my mind when I said the “hyphen phrase” was “—not on bike, but on Luigi.” I do not believe the comma before but was really correct but the phrase “but on Luigi” is not an independent clause. Again, though, for me I didnt try on English bc I already have a 36 on it and most my schools superscore.</p>

<p>There was a question about the subway and I put the answer as</p>

<p>blah blah blah: completion</p>

<p>The other choice was like</p>

<p>blah blah blah; completion</p>

<p>what was the answer</p>

<p>Colon no question. I saw them use a colon the same way on another passage.</p>

<p>The concluding sentence to show the expansiveness of the subway was “Now its 600 miles long with 4m peeps” right?</p>

<p>It was either that or “still used today” <- But that didn’t show “expansiveness.”</p>

<p>EDIT: It wasn’t a colon because the phrase couldn’t stand alone as a sentence. It was no error.</p>

<p>hey, does anyone remember the question about the allusion to orion? I answered with the choice that brought up myths and legend if i remember correctly. What did you put?</p>

<p>I didn’t understand this question,
Does anyone remember the At 2 AM question? I do not remember the whole question though.
The orignal sentence was something like this,
"At 2am., "
The anwser choice was,
F-no change
G- At 2am,
H- At 2am.,
I do not remember the last chioce either.
Can anyone explain that question to me? Thanks</p>

<p>@Xombie</p>

<p>“EDIT: It wasn’t a colon because the phrase couldn’t stand alone as a sentence. It was no error.”</p>

<p>I thought when u use a colon it’s not supposed to be allowed to stand alone</p>

<p>It was the option with only a comma at the end and after the date.</p>

<p>“At 2 a.m. blah blach Oct 14, 1984,…”</p>

<p>You read me wrong. The answer was no error (aka keep the hyphen) because you could NOT use the semicolon because the phrase could NOT stand alone. You were right.</p>

<p>i think i got a 36 on this section! but i bombed reading, which i had thought i did well until i got to the june 2009 act reading discussion thread.</p>

<p>oo Xombie I see</p>

<p>Yes I put no error :)</p>

<p>chair- thts how I feel about math = D</p>

<p>The answer was “it” because the subject wasn’t proposals. If you filled in the word “proposals” the sentence didn’t make sense</p>

<p>I think i either put it or those…one of those i think!</p>

<p>I think the “it” question was more idiomatic than grammatical.</p>

<p>On the question where you had to arrange the sentences of a paragraph of the old friends passage, what did everyone put?</p>

<p>I think sentence 2 was last?</p>

<p>Subject wasn’t proposals.</p>

<p>There were many proposals but it took time etc…</p>

<p>It refers to the process of doing it. Those seemed right at first, but in context did not make sense because proposals were already done. </p>

<p>In essence, saying “those” would be grammatically correct but would be out of context.</p>

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<p>I put ‘it was referring to myths’ or something like that, because the preceding sentences referred to other history mythical figures or whatever.</p>

<p>Through my parents, I learned. . .
I called BlahBlah. . .
The following month I had to go there. . .
That’s the order I put them in, I think. I don’t remember the original order =/
I’m freaking out about that question though. I justified this order because the next paragraph talked about her going there, so I figured “the following month” should be that last sentence.</p>

<p>what did you all put for the question where the answers were like</p>

<p>*were to be
*was
*if it were
*if it was</p>

<p>i didn’t even think it made sense but i put “was”</p>

<p>I put ‘was’ because I’m pretty sure all the other multiple choice answers were plural.</p>