October 2010 ACT English Thread

<p>Wongtongtong—</p>

<p>this was the question: "which one of the these choices best describes the person that wanted to do it?</p>

<p>“not unintentionally” means on purpose. It fits best. “ironically” means that the person did not expect, and therefore did not want, but it suprisingly happened.</p>

<p>I don’t think it was purposely, but it was something along the lines of they clearly wanted to show they were making it different</p>

<p>Again, if that is what the question said, I agree with the not unintentionally answer.</p>

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<p>Please check my consolidated list. Idk if I made any mistake</p>

<p>Don’t worry I will not waste any of them ;)</p>

<p>If anyone remembers the stargazing passage, the following question is directed towards you: For the question that said “which of the following would effectively conclude this essay AND reiterate the images said previously in the essay if the author were to come back home, looking at the sky?”</p>

<p>I put that “he would look up at Orion or somehting like that and then he would remember his father pointing it out to him.”</p>

<p>Missy, bar the answers i cant remember at all, I think i agree with all your answers and so does cc, except i guess the non unintentionally is still under some fire</p>

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<p>Anyway…yes, the Orion one was the best answer since that was the image referred to earlier in the story.</p>

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<p>I think i got -2 on this part. How much is this?</p>

<p>I’m 100% sure it’s “not unintentional” because the question specifically said “they purposefully wanted to make it different from the original.” However, I was stupid enough to overead it as “intentional”, so I went “oh, that means the opposite with what they want” so I chose ironically as well :(</p>

<p>On the consolidated list, the one with “the creature moves so fast” can’t be the right answer. Fast is used as an adverb, which isn’t right…</p>

<p>Does anyone remember their answer? I put something along the lines of “the movement is so fast that…”</p>

<p>But it didnt say purposfullly!!! I would remember. Ok w/e grrrrrrrr I will assume I got that wrong.</p>

<p>Looking at -1 so far…</p>

<p>More errors to come I guess?</p>

<p>^ yeah, it was something along that line. The other choices didn’t pertain to the speed of the woodpecker</p>

<p>No.
Skiiz, the introductory clause was describing the creature and the noun that immediately follows the comma of the introductory clause must be the what it was referring to, in this case, the creature.</p>

<p>^your answer couldn’t have been right then. </p>

<p>because “the movement…” part of the sentence doesn’t reflect the same noun phrase as the phrase in the dependent clause of that sentence. In other words, “the movement” part was not comparing apples to apples with the subject of the dependent clause.</p>

<p>Well I am saying that if the introductory clause referred to the creature, the creature needs to follow the comma. If it referred to something else, that needs to follow the comma.</p>

<p>I dont remember what the sentence is so Im not sure what the answer was.</p>

<p>Someone else that the first part of that sentence referred to the creature so thats what I was saying. I am not sure if they are right thouygh since I dont remember the sentence</p>