<p>In the India passage I said shouted in Bengali because the title of the essay was something about the language.</p>
<p>was there one with a colon in this section like : x and y, a and b, c and d. did you guys keep the colon?</p>
<p>What’s this colon question? Anyone remember the sentence. Please.</p>
<p>It is 100% teeny-tiny.
Reduced-sized, small-scale etc. all meant that it was taken from the original and made smaller. Teeny-tiny literally just means incredibly smaller and loses the meaning that it was in scale.</p>
<p>OHHH now i remember it a lil i know one of the options was for your examp “x and y, (and?) a and b, c an d” I didn’t choose that one but i think i did keep a colon?</p>
<p>What did you guys say for the question in the radio passage that started off like, “To…(guy’s name)…would” or something like that?</p>
<p>@collegebound - I deleted that colon. It was like “Ranging from: Dust Bowl to etc” and in that case you don’t need the colon.</p>
<p>The other colon question was with the chromosomes about color blindness. The answer was “chromosomes:” with the colon (“men only have one X chromosome” came after it), since it was the only one that made sense. One of the other choices was “chromosomes since,” but was wrong because that comma shouldn’t be there.</p>
<p>^The first colon you had to keep because it was introducing a list.</p>
<p>I agree with @zach12. Delete the colon in the dust bowl question and keep it in the chromosome question.</p>
<p>@StanfordCS - It doesn’t work like that. You don’t put a colon in this sentence, for instance:</p>
<p>I went to the store today and bought: an apple, an orange, and a banana.</p>
<p>McGraw Hill’s book says you do.</p>
<p>Yeah but none of the other ones made any sense.</p>
<p>Anyway, just here to confirm that teeny-tiny is the answer. Usually, whenever ACT does the whole whichever is LEAST acceptable, they don’t been grammatically, but instead stylistically, unless they are all grammatical different in some way.</p>
<p>I agree with Thrashingshrimp, ACT usually wants what is MOST (or in this case LEAST) acceptable.</p>
<p>Was the part before the list an independent clause?</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>No. It was something like “They selected subjects ranging from: …”</p>
<p>It should not have a colon.</p>
<p>^ Yes it should.</p>
<p>Personally, I like the SAT better than the ACT… It’s just torture to write a decent essay after 4 hours of testing. My hand cramped up the whole time… Being loaded with caffeine and sugar did not help much with that.</p>
<p>If it’s not an independent clause beforehand then it totes should not have a colon. </p>
<p>[Uses</a> of the Colon in English Writing - It’s Rather Common to Use The Colon | World-Leading Language Solutions by WhiteSmoke](<a href=“http://www.whitesmoke.com/punctuation-colon.html]Uses”>Uses of the Colon in English Writing - It's Rather Common to Use The Colon | World-Leading Language Solutions by WhiteSmoke)</p>
<p>My answer still stands w/ no colon in that case.</p>
<p>Hold on let me scan McGraw Hill’s book, where it shows colon before list.</p>
<p>I hated the essay topic compared to the practice ones I had seen, but I can’t say anything beyond that lol</p>