ACT Chapter 10: Redundancy

ACT Chapter 10: Redundancy

By EMMA MASSENGALE

Multiple Choice

She created a photographically companion to the watercolor portrait by framing a photograph of the painting’s subject and hanging it directly next to the painting.

• A.  NO CHANGE

• B.  visually photographically

• C.  photographic

• D.  DELETE the underlined portion.

Multiple Choice

2.  First, we used a seam ripper and a needle to remove the crooked stitches and re-sew the seams in straight lines. We then began to piece the garment together.

•   F.  NO CHANGE

• G.  the seams in straight lines where the stitches had previously been   removed by us.

• H.  the seams in very straight lines since it is necessary for garments to   have straight seams.

•   J.  DELETE the underlined portion and end the sentence with a period.

Multiple Choice

The ferry takes approximately fifteen minutes to complete the crossing,   which runs from Ellis Island to the Battery Park ferry terminal in under   twenty minutes.

• A.  NO CHANGE

•   B.  in order to complete the crossing.

•   C.  in about fifteen minutes.

•   D.  DELETE the underlined portion and end the sentence with a period.

Multiple Choice

4.  Every Sunday morning, as she walks to the church down the street, she   stops at the café on the corner to buy a pastry on her way to church.

•   F.  NO CHANGE

•   G.  after commencing her walk to the church down the street,

•   H.  needing to buy a pastry,

•   J.  DELETE the underlined portion.

Multiple Choice

5.  Mature great white sharks may attain a length of twenty-one feet and   weigh over 7,000 pounds.

•   A.  NO CHANGE

•   B.  in terms of length attain

•   C.  strive to attain

•   D.  attain and reach

Multiple Choice

6.  Margaret works at a bookstore now, but last year she was unemployed and repeatedly filled out job applications over and over again to find  work.

•   F.  NO CHANGE

•   G.  in order to seek out and

•   H.  and sought them out

•   J.  DELETE the underlined portion.