***Official December 9 ACT English Thread****

<p>This section was pretty medium for me, but I still have high hopes for a decent(34+) score. ;)</p>

<p>Rhetorical question problem...</p>

<p>should it be "kept because it provided a transition between the first sentence and the rest of the paragraph"</p>

<p>or should it be "deleted because it is already addressed in the paragraph"</p>

<p>i put kept...</p>

<p>i wasnt sure about this..but i put deleted</p>

<p>btw..this was my first time takin the ACT</p>

<p>g/l Shadow!</p>

<p>"Sometimes necessity is blah blah blah" = detracts from the focus of the passage?</p>

<p>^ that's what i got.</p>

<p>I'd problems with simple ones like "exploit or abuse" is that right? or is it "exploit, or abuse"</p>

<p>and...."people who blablablala were silient" do we need a comma? like "people, who blablabla, were silient"</p>

<p>posted this on another topic. it's really bothering me.</p>

<p>The only one I wasn't sure of was the one about the man riding a horse for the first time. It was something about "even though I'm not an expert rider, at least I'm easy to get along with" or something like that. I was stuck between "expert rider/no change" and just "expert".</p>

<p>it was no change, but because "one" would be referring to "expert" if "rider" were deleted; the way it was set up, "one" referred to "rider." He wasn't an expert, but he was a rider.</p>

<p>shadowrider, if the ACT finds out who you are, you are a dead man for starting all these threads to discuss the questions and answers. By the way, when do we get our scores???</p>

<p>the earliest is the during 19-21st, but you have to pay eight bucks.</p>

<p>Rhetorical question problem...</p>

<p>"should it be "kept because it provided a transition between the first sentence and the rest of the paragraph"</p>

<p>or should it be "deleted because it is already addressed in the paragraph"</p>

<p>i put kept..."</p>

<p>i put kept as well</p>

<p>did u guys get a lot of omits?</p>

<p>This might be stupid but do you remember anything about Amil, the farmer?
I was just soooo confused if I need a comma when I say
"blah blah blah farmer,(this comma right here) named Amil."
Do I need it or not?</p>

<p>If you can take out the phrase between the questionable commas, and the sentence still makes sense, then you need the commas...</p>

<p>... I think.</p>

<p>motorized watercraft on rivers and lakes - keep lakes and river part?</p>

<p>yea i put keep</p>

<p>ok and then there was one that was like of.......noun, of noun and noun.</p>

<p>i dont remember that 1</p>

<p>gosh i dont remember it but one of the answer choices had a semi colon and i couldnt decide!</p>

<p>"motorized watercraft on rivers and lakes - keep lakes and river part?"</p>

<p>No, you do NOT keep that. It doesn't have anything to do with what the essay is saying... its unnecessary information.</p>