My mother is a justice of the peace; that means she has the power to perform weddings.
(A)NO CHANGE
(B) put on the ball and chain.
(C) put on the ball and chain.
(D) do the nuptial thing.
Just yesterday I sat across the aisle with a woman who was composing music in pink-tinted glasses in a notebook.
(A)where it is now.
(B) after the word woman.
(C) after the word was.
(D) after the word composing.
Correct Answer: B
She led projects to build houses and to bring running water to isolated towns.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) bring about (C) bringing (D) OMIT the underlined portion.
Correct Answer: A
This laundromat has three soda machines, two candy machines, two pinball machines, five video machines, and a machine that eats dollar bills and spits out too much or too few quarters.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) many or too fewer (C) many or too few (D) much or few
Correct Answer: C
More ACT English Exam Questions
- 1One of my clients, Andrew, had a young Irish setter named Red. Who had never been taught any commands.
- 2As we walked together through the open field that evening, hundreds of tiny fireflies flashing softly from the tall grasses.
- 3I must admit, though, that when chairperson, mail carrier, and police officer were being predded into the lauguage to replace chairman,mailman, and policeman, I had my doubts; what Idoubted was taht words could effect change. Yet I see now with my daugter that language does change what we perceive as possible and appropriate.
- 4In a few days, when the kiln has cooled, Ellen opens the chamber, revealing the results of her labor and of the fire's magic.
- 5Rosie, it turns out, is a desert tortoise that my grandmother had started raising over twenty years ago.