<p>@starchywinky,</p>
<p>what passage was this again?</p>
<p>The one about the guy that made music for the Galactica remake.</p>
<p>Back to the comma questions:</p>
<p>…something something kitchen, which serves as an alternative to costly restaraunts. vs. …something something kitchen which serves as an alternative to costly restaraunts?</p>
<p>I believe it’s the latter.</p>
<p>Hummingbirds have a feathered beak, which prevents them from inhaling sawdust that is produced from the work they do.
vs.
Hummingbirds have a feathered beak which prevents them from inhaling sawdust that is produced from the work they do.</p>
<p>I put the latter for this one, too.</p>
<p>Comments?</p>
<p>I also put no comma for both of them.</p>
<p>I wasn’t aware that no comma was an option. I thought the passage simply asked for a more specific explanation?</p>
<p>I remember the second sentence but don’t remember the question at all.</p>
<p>Well the hummingbird question had another element to it, but I’m pretty sure the kitchen was asking for the relationship between those clauses.</p>
<p>no comma was an option for both, btw.</p>
<p>For the very first question, did the passage have awakened or awokened in the sentence?</p>
<p>Or does anyone remember the letter answer for it?</p>
<p>I think it had awokened in the original sentence.</p>
<p>@Neuroscience & @thuglyfe
thuglyfe your re-creation was very accurate from what I remember. The sentence went “Hummingbirds have a feathered beak which prevents them from inhaling sawdust…” with everything after sawdust being part of a second question. Like it seems most of you, I chose not to include the comma, but I’m honestly stumped as to which answer is right or wrong. It seems like it all comes down to whether the “which prevents…” was superfluous or “essential” to the sentence.
Honestly, to me this seems like a bad ACT question. As far as I can tell the act of withholding or adding the comma, in this instance, is simply a style choice. I mean, give your opinions guys, but I’m betting a fair amount of people got this wrong–whatever the correct answer–and hoping the scale takes care of this question.
P.S. I can totally relate Neuroscience! I’ve been hovering around a 34 so every single point counts.</p>
<p>The hummingbird question didn’t ask about commas, it asked what phrase should be inserted to make it more characteristic of them and the answer was the saw-dust thing.</p>
<p>Wasn’t it about a woodpecker, not a hummingbird?</p>
<p>@statlanta, you’re mistaken. There were two different questions being asked from the hummingbird sentence: The first asked was about commas, the second was to insert/re-work the last third of the sentence, respectively.</p>
<p>ED: Also, I can absolutely not differentiate between a hummingbird or a woodpecker. Sorry for any confusion!</p>
<p>I’m totally with statlanta on this one. Either everyone’s getting slightly different tests or both statlana and I seem to not remember at all being asked a question about the comma in this particular sentence. Hell, I just know that I changed the subordinate clause to what it needed to be in order to maximize detail, as required by the question</p>
<p>@sonnybd, can you reproduce from memory the essentials of the sentence in question (prior to changing the subordinate clause)?</p>
<p>Yeah, i did NOT get a question on that sentence of inhale. I got a comma/no comma question on the sentence that goes “something skill necessary to do the work”</p>
<p>OOHH, thanks above poster! just rememebered the saw dust question</p>
<p>it was asking which is the most specific and either the original text or one of the options was like “able to do what it needs to do” which was not the right answer for sure. i picked whatever was most specific.</p>
<p>also, wasn’t lush-something something one of the answers too.</p>
<p>I believe it was “had awakened”, which was choice B. </p>
<p>Here’s my proof: <a href=“http://en.bab.la/conjugation/english/awaken[/url]”>http://en.bab.la/conjugation/english/awaken</a> Scroll down to “past perfect subjunctive” and you’ll see that it says “I had awakened”</p>
<p>How is that proof for anything? </p>
<p>why do you think it was a past perfect subjunctive? </p>
<p>i really dont see the argument behind any choices except awakened.</p>
<p>i was awakened by some noises. simple sentence, what is the argument? i seriously don’t see it. someone explain what im missing!</p>
<p>Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m fairly sure the passage said “I had ________”. I forget what was in the blank originally, but it is imperative that the blank must be filled in with the word “awakened” as “I had awaken” is not a correct conjugation…</p>
<p>EDIT: Wait, @Neuroscience: I just realized we chose the same answer…why are you arguing?</p>
<p>i thought u were arguing for another option lol had awakened or something.</p>
<p>my bad. can u look at the other ones i asked about in my previous post (on the previous page)</p>