By the time I learned that coin collecting, or numismatics, had begun in the Italian Renaissance, I had developed a habit of checking every handful of change for a rare or old coin—or one that was both.
(A)NO CHANGE
(B) begun
(C) had began
(D) had it’s beginning
The Correct Answer
Patches of salt forming on our faces and arms as our sweat evaporated into the August air.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) would form (C) form (D) OMIT the underlined portion.
Correct Answer: B
In the twelfth century, the tale was illustrated with picture scrolls; in the seventeenth century, books of wood-block prints based on the tale was produced.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) is (C) were (D) are
Correct Answer: C
So, when he has went to buy a new color television —because his old black-and-white model had finally quit—and the salesperson tried to talk him into buying a model with a remote control, he resisted.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) had went (C) went (D) goes
Correct Answer: C
More ACT English Exam Questions
- 1When storyteller Mary Carter Smith practices her art and everybody listens.
- 2Of course, these days even an entire untouched penny hardly lying on the sidewalk is worth bending over to pick up.
- 3Their jaws contain seventy to eighty conical teeth and has a closing power of up to 1,200 poufilds per square inch.
- 4He then wrote an enthusiastic article for Strand magazine, being the place in which most of his Sherlock Holmes stories had first appeared, and later wrote a book on the subject titled The Coming of the Fairies.
- 5Eventually, his style caught the attention of other adventurous young players.