Language Review
ACT Preparation
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Glencoe booklet
- D Words that possess add ‘s
brothers-in-law
Four deer
- B Both, plural / their, plural
Each singular / her singular
Pronouns must agree in number.
Each one
Each brought _____ book to class
- C shift in tense
clutched /past tense
Told /past tense
Turns /present tense**
Pushed /past tense
- B
Read bothwordsfor contractions.
Itstires became flattened.
It’sraining outside.(it is)
Whosebook is that?
Who’sgoing to the mall?
- A
- B,appositive phrase,
Restates what was written “in other words.” The appositive phrase will have a comma before and a comma after.
- AUse a comma with a mild interjection
Interjections are words such as Wow! Golly! Stop!strong interjections
Yes, Okay, Oh, mild interjections
- B tomatoes / spelling
*For musical terms simply add S
- Alto altos
- Soprano sopranos
- Piano pianos
- C Words that possess add ‘s.
*You can only ADD s one time on the same word.
- A
It saw
Mouse run
Kitten sprang
- D Singular noun / singular pronoun
Plural noun / plural pronoun
Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement.
- C
To affect is to influence; verb
the effect is the result. noun
- A Use the fewest words possible.
- D vividly
- A accept/except
- C
- D“Use quotations for a person’s exactwords,” said Mrs. Hinton. Omit THAT or WHETHER
- B The class elected two officers
The class elected Rita.
The class elected me.
- C misplaced modifiers
The modifying phrase should be next to the word it is describing.
- A Use fewer words.
- B Clear and Precise means “be exact”
- D a – run on sentence / comma splice
b and care fragments
- C drink - drank - have drunk,
has drunk,
had drunk
sing – sang – have sung
ring – rang – have rung
swim – swam – have swum
- A
either one – singular verbs end in s.
Either Thomas Malory or Mark Twain is my favorite writer.
- D
- C
- D
- C –active voice – uses one verb
The subjectof the sentence performs the action of the verb.
- D
- B
- A–Use fewer words
- A –Misplaced Modifier
- D –passive voice – 2 or more verbs The subject DID NOT perform the action of the verb.
Cameron / opened the door.
Active voice 1 verb plus the subject performed the action.
The door / was opened by Cameron.
Passive voice 2 verbs plus the subject did NOT perform the action.
The students / will pass this exam including Cameron. Active voice
This exam / will be passed by the students. Passive voice verb
- D
- B
- B – formal English: never use you, contractions, nor opinions
- C fragment
- A ; however,
The teacher gave the answer to the test; however, some people missed the questions.
The teacher, however, gave the answers to the test.
- A comma splice / run-on
- D : Never place a colon after apreposition or a verb. The colon means “note what follows.”
A series will follow the colon.
- A jumped, laughed, danced all parts are the same
- C sentence ; sentence.
- B parallel structure- all parts are the same
- D
too hot, too sunny, and too far away
In parallel structure, there will always be three parts in one sentence. All three parts must be the same.
My mother dislikes living in Arizona because it is too hot, it is too sunny, and
Exercise 1 Prepositional Phrases
- The town in Alabamahad a spacious plazanear the town hall.
- The fountainnear the plaza was a gathering place.
Exercise 2 Appositive Phrases
- Damaso Valentin, a high-spirited boy, brought to the group great verve, along with a taste of prosperity.
- He lived with his mother, a widow.
Exercise 3 Participial Phrases
- The Jesuits, expelled from Spain by the government, shut their schools.
- Damaso and Eduardo, feeling self-conscious in their new school, sought new friends.
Exercise 4 Gerund Phrases
- Creating a vast empire was Spain’s goal at one time.
- Losing its Latin American colonies set off Spain’s decline.
Exercise 5
1.To perform deeds of courage was Gervasio’s great desire.
2. He hoped to battle the enemy.
- B
- C
- C-Passive voice
treeswere planted.
Jose planted the tree.-active voice
- A –
Everyday=adjective- describes the noun.
Every day=each day, noun.
She chews gum every day.
It is an everyday occurrence.
- B
- B
- A
- D ; therefore,
- C “poems” books “articles”
- A- omit “that”
- D- two months’ salary
- D
- C
- B/C
- B
- B
- B , but
- D
- C
- B - Formal writing: remove contactions (can’t), I, you, cliché (overused expessions), slang
- B
- D swim, walk, play
- B
- C
- C passive voice / 2 verbs
- C
- B Eachreceives – remove the prep. phrase when looking for subj. and verb
- C
- A singular subject needs singular Verb / Pronoun
- A
- D
- B
- B Use fewer words.
- A
- B
- D
- A
- C
- A Active voice / one verb
- B
- B
- C daughters-in-law
- B
- D
- C
- D two workmen
- B
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