The children were required to do more than sit arid listen quietly through their "lessons."
(A)NO CHANGE
(B) more, than sit and listen quietly,
(C) more than sit arid listen quietly,
(D) more than sit, and listen quietly
The eggs are bright white and about two inches in diameter. You were watching as each turtle then slowly, laboriously, buries the eggs, turning in circle after circle, pushing sand back into the holes with surprisingly efficient flippers.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) watch (C) had watched (D) watched
Correct Answer: B
One of the welding certificates on view were donated by Bethena Moore. Operating a torch that could heat metal to 250¡ãF, she helped make Kaiser one of the most productive shipyards of the wartime era.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) are (C) was (D) have been
Correct Answer: C
Waist overalls, which eventually would be known as jeans, were made out of denim, a durable cotton cloth used especially for work clothes.
(A)NO CHANGE
(B) denim;
(C) denim being
(D) denim, this was
Correct Answer: A
More ACT English Exam Questions
- 1Joy Kogawa was born in 1935 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Like Uchida, Kogawa and her family were removed from their home and relocated by the government, first to the interior of British Columbia, then to a farm in Alberta.
- 2Darrow must have sensed the potential of a gamethat, during a time of economic hardship, would allow people to play at buying property and amassing a fortune. However, Darrow produced thousands of copies of the Atlantic City version of the game and sold them at department stores.
- 3Through my parents, who were still in touch with Joan's father, I learned that Joan was currently living in Fairbanks.
- 4In both of these cases, Grant recognized a need and focused his skills, imagination, and is intelligence to devising a way to fill that need.
- 5This question asks about the preceding passage as a whole. Upon reviewing the essay and realizing that some key information has been left out, the writer composes the following sentence incorporating that information: Soon enough, I showed up for my first day at the hospital. This sentence would most logically be placed before the first sentence in Paragraph: