October 2010 ACT English Thread

<p>was it just me or did this test have a lot of NO CHANGE answers? I swear I had 1 or two for every answer choice column. :/</p>

<p>^Yup. I also felt there were quite a bit of no change answers.</p>

<p>Same here, I was second guessing myself because I felt like I was getting just a bit too many No Changes.</p>

<p>yay, thank you. I felt horrible putting no change on it. It always felt wrong.</p>

<p>@college for you i put its advantage too…</p>

<p>Can someone explain why it would be its advantage?</p>

<p>the antecedent was singular…</p>

<p>What was the antecedent/full sentence for that one? I don’t remember the question.</p>

<p>Also, lots of no changes for sure.</p>

<p>Anyone know this one: The result, of this film and others, is ________
vs. The result of this film and others is</p>

<p>I thought the clause was nonessential so it required commas. Correct?</p>

<p>Also in the woodpecker there were 2 adjectives that described it. would there be commas inbetween them? I can’t remember the adjectives so I’ll give an example:</p>

<p>He had a tall, hungry, look vs. He had a tall hungry look</p>

<p>I think the phrase was “rapid tapping sound.” I don’t think I put commas. Not sure if I’m right though.</p>

<p>IDR the this film and others.</p>

<p>As for the 2 adjectives, I remember the question but I honestly don’t remember what I put. I do seem to recall the choices being easy due to process of elimination. One of them was adj adj, noun. Obviously that doesn’t work. I seem to remember being able to eliminate one more like that and then knowing a rule for the last two choices.</p>

<p>That probably doesn’t help, sorry.</p>

<p>i didn’t put a comma because i learned it you switch the words and they don’t make sense, then it doesn’t need a comma. like dark blue. you wouldn’t say blue, dark shirt. idk. but I may be wrong lol…</p>

<p>^That’s cute haha</p>

<p>^You are correct, RAlec. Took me a while to realize that there was a comma on the end</p>

<p>QUESTION: did you guys get “,and you…” I know it is really vague buts all I remember.</p>

<p>Also, I thought there wasn’t a comma because tapping sound was like one noun and rapid was the adjective modifying and the other answers didn’t make a lot of sense.</p>

<p>I agree with WongTongTong. The choice that you guys are talking about was “rapid, tapping, sound.” The comma before sound doesn’t make sense.</p>

<p>“rapid, tapping, sound” makes no sense and “rapid tapping, sound” makes no sense. What were the other two? “rapid tapping sound” and “rapid, tapping sound?” I think it’s w/o commas.</p>

<p>i put ,and you get blah blah, i also put The result, of this film and other episodes, is blah and im pretty sure its right. If you put The result of this film and other episodes, is—the common in the sentence is unnecessary.</p>

<p>@RAlec haha thanks, I learned it at an ACT workshop actually.</p>