ACT ENGLISH AND READING ENGLISH GRAMMAR 45 minutes
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ACT ENGLISH AND READING
ENGLISH- GRAMMAR • 45 minutes long and 75 questions. • Underlines: Grammar errors are underlined and assigned numbers that correspond to the question number. Choose the best replacement of (or don’t change) the underlined word or phrase based on rules of grammar, punctuation, syntax, and rhetoric.
2 TYPES OF QUESTIONS ON ENGLISH TEST • Grammar or punctuation • Structure and style
IF IT AIN’T BROKE, DON’T FIX IT • 25 percent of underlined are perfect. • Read non-underlined too • Stay with the style of the passage • Use answer choices- determine the kind of question by the answers
COMPLETE IDEAS VS NON COMPLETE • Breath test • Commas • ACT like commas before the last AND in a list
STOP! GO! . , ! : ? - ; And , and But , but (not puncutation
CHOOSE THE BEST BY GETTING RID OF THE WORST PROCESS OF ELIMINATION
SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT • Who vs whom • Best words, wrong words
APOSTROPHES • Contractions are fine • Apostrophes are for 2 things- contractions and possession
STRUCTURE AND STYLE
TRANSITION QUESTIONS SIMILAR • And • Thus • Therefore • since DIFFERENT • However • Yet • Although • still
WORDS THESE ORDER IN PUT THE RIGHT
READING- 4 PASSAGES (90 LINES), 40 QUESTIONS • Read the question • Find the answer in the passage • Put the answer in your own words • Read the answers, cross off any that don’t agree
ACT PRACTICE CITES • Petersons. com/college • 4 tests. com/act • ACTstudent. org/testprep/ • Varsitytutor. com/act-practice-tests • Princetonreview. com/college/free-act-practice-test#!practice
- There are 60 seconds in 1 minute
- Pre reading while reading and post reading activities
- Act english grammar
- Left-linear grammar
- 15 minutes of reading
- Reading test 35 minutes 40 questions
- Macbeth act 3-5 summary
- Traditional grammar vs modern grammar
- Type 0 grammar is called unrestricted grammar
- Right linear grammar to left linear grammar
- Listening speaking reading writing are the components in
- Grammar listening speaking reading writing
- Grammar listening speaking reading writing
- Difference between silent reading and reading aloud
- Types of readings