ACT English Practice

The panda is a warm gentle animal that dines on bamboo shoots.

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• The panda, is a warm gentle animal that dines on bamboo shoots.
• The panda is warm, gentle animal, that dines on bamboo shoots. 
• The panda is a warm, gentle animal that dines on bamboo shoots.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.4.2C

I’ve decked out my laptop with a keyboard cover, pokemon stickers, and a transparent case.

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• I’ve decked out my laptop with a keyboard cover, Pokemon stickers and a transparent case.
• I’ve decked out my laptop with a keyboard cover, Pokemon, stickers and, a transparent case.
• I’ve decked out my laptop, with a keyboard cover, Pokemon stickers and a transparent case.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2C

CCSS.L.5.2A

CCSS.L.7.2A

I can’t buy those new shoes, if the price is too high.

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• I can't buy those new shoes if the price is too high.

• I can't buy those, new shoes, if the price is too high.

• I can't, buy those new shoes if the price is too high.

Tonys hat is on the floor.

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• Tonys' hat is on the floor
• Tonies' hat is on the floor
• Tony’s hat is on the floor.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

Both players’ jerseys were soaked with sweat.

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• Both players’s jerseys were soaked with sweat.
• Both player's jersey's were soaked with sweat.
• Both players jersey's were soaked with sweat.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

The bank robbers threw the wads of cash into trash bags and rushed out the door, whose hinges were getting rusty. Outside, they met up with a friend who drove them to a secret hiding place. The police tried to follow them but they were too late onto the scene.

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• The bank robbers threw the wads of cash into trash bags and rushed out the door. Outside, they met up with a friend who drove them to a secret hiding place. The police tried to follow them but they were too late onto the scene.
• The bank robbers threw the wads of cash into trash bags and rushed out the door, whose hinges were getting rusty. The police tried to follow them but they were too late onto the scene.
• The bank robbers threw the wads of cash into trash bags. Outside, they met up with a friend who drove them to a secret hiding place. 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1F

n her biography about her life, she writes about overcoming poverty and fear.

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• In her biography, about her life, she writes about overcoming poverty and fear.
• In her biography , she writes about overcoming poverty and fear.
• She writes about overcoming poverty and fear.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Carrying drugs is something that could put you in jail.

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• Carrying drugs is illegal.
• Carrying drugs is illegal and is something that could put you in jail.
• Carrying drugs puts you in jail.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Consider the amount of paper that’s wasted by unnecessary printing, a hundred thousand pages, three times as much as what our competitors use.

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• Consider the amount of paper that’s wasted by unnecessary printing; a hundred thousand pages, three times as much as what our competitors use. 
• Consider the amount of paper that’s wasted by unnecessary printing, a hundred thousand pages--three times as much as what our competitors use.
• Consider the amount of paper that’s wasted by unnecessary printing—a hundred thousand pages, three times as much as what our competitors use. 

Tags

CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.8.2A

Cambridge is home to two of the best universities in the world: MIT and Harvard. 

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• Cambridge is home to two of the best universities in the world MIT and Harvard.
• Cambridge is home to two of the best universities in the world, MIT and Harvard.
• Cambridge is home to two of the best universities in the world; MIT and Harvard.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.4.2C