September 2010 ACT English Discussion

<p>yeah the answer was “reward”; all of the other ones were def possible.
@soccerryan about the ehrie one, i put no change. i’m pretty sure all the punctuation was properly placed.
for the rice, it was about the birds and the fowls</p>

<p>^tothetop you definitely need to keep the “It was rice season”. The passage began with a vague, literary discreption of what was going on. Without that sentence, the passage would go straight into “To harvest rice” or something.</p>

<p>one the second to last question of the english section it said "elizabeth was a surprising writer. "… were you supposed to combine sentences or keep it the same?</p>

<p>i agree with tothetop about the " it was rice season"</p>

<p>but since majority of you put leave it where it is…</p>

<p>@ tothetop, i’m pretty sure that one was supposed to be kept the same. the first sentence was like a description…then the statement “it was rice season” explained what the first sentence was referring to</p>

<p>Can someone tell me how the shakespeare sentence was worded in the passage?</p>

<p>^Anapo:</p>

<p>Englishpeople were shocked that men read newspapers but not Shakespeare and women worked in factories instead of as maids.</p>

<p>@tothetop: I don’t think the first sentence even mentioned rice. I think the second sentence “it was rice reason” explained the preceding sentence. And I think celebrity was wrong, that’s what I put too but according to dictionary.com, celebrity also can mean fame and renown. And yes, I also put D.</p>

<p>@massgirl: Yeah, I was down to either no change or what I put. The change would be to put commas around “Ehrie,” and I think you had to because it wasn’t necessary for the sentence to make sense. You easily remove Ehrie and say: “Eventually, his original nickname changed to ‘Bob.’” Anyone agree with me?</p>

<p>^ Oh right, I forgot about that question. People put commas around his name, right?</p>

<p>SoccerRyan there was already a comma before Ehrie, so you needed to put one after it. A lot of people missed it.</p>

<p>I had it right then changed it. ARGGGGGG! and I think thats the only one I missed (hopefully)</p>

<p>wait so billabong what was the answer to the ehrie one…do you remember the letter you got? i got A</p>

<p>Shouldn’t A have been NO CHANGE? If so, I think it was B. But if you knew the comma rule, then you probably got it right.</p>

<p>The answer was definitely A.</p>

<p>i put A as well, i believe there was a comma already before and after Ehrie</p>

<p>Was the correct phrase for that one: his nickname, “Elrhie,” changed to…</p>

<p>^yes. yes it was</p>

<p>^Yes that’s right. There was a comma attached before “Ehrie”, so you need one after it.</p>

<p>So there was commas around Ehrie but no comma before the new nickname? Because this is what I did.</p>

<p>^the answer choice was A. I’m getting the feeling you are implying something else.</p>