CA4 Lesson 9 ACT English

However hard it rains, the frogs in my pond continue to enjoy themselves; when the weather changes, though, they begin to prepare for hibernation.

• NO CHANGE

• How ever hard

• However, hardly

• However difficult

Betty, whom had the best average of anyone else in math class, could not believe her eyes when the teacher said, "Betty, you must not have studied for this test; you missed half the answers."

• NO CHANGE

• whom had the best average of anyone in math class

• who had the best average in math class

• who had the highest average of anyone in class

The lost campers wandered through the mountains, camped each night wherever they could, ate wild berries, managed to avoid bears and mountain lions and never gave up hope.

• NO CHANGE

• lions, and never

• lions and, never,

• lions: and never

The little children chased the rabbits into burrows and didn't worry about anything, while the kid's parents worried about mosquitoes.

• NO CHANGE

• kid's parent's

• kids parent's

• kids' parents

Tiffany's new car, that requires high octane fuel, can really fly down the highway.

• NO CHANGE

• car that

• car, which

• car which

During the hot, dry summer, commercial farmers growing fruits and grains in low elevations recognized they needed more water to survive, they installed new irrigation systems.

• that farmers needed more water to survive so they installed new irrigation systems.

• that the plants would not survive without more water; for that reason, the farmers installed new irrigation systems.

• they were going to lose crops if no one installed new irrigation systems.

• they needed more water for the plants, and the plants would not survive so they, the farmers, installed new irrigation systems.

The family of doctors traces their medical heritage back to the sixteen hundreds.

• its medical heritage to the seventeenth century.

• their medical heritage back to the 1600s.

• their heritage back to the seventeenth century.

• its medical history back to the sixteenth century.

Playing until one o'clock in the morning, the police were called to shut down the concert.

• Playing until one o'clock in the morning, someone called the police

• Playing until 1:00 a.m., the police were called

• At one o'clock in the morning, the police were called

• By playing until one o'clock in the morning, the police were called

Because the math problems were difficult for me to do, I had forgotten all the equations.

• I had forgotten all the equations, because the math problems were difficult for me to complete.

• The math problems were difficult for me because I had forgotten to do all the equations.

• The math problems were difficult to do, but all the equations had been forgotten by me.

• The math problems were difficult to do because I had forgotten all the equations.

After Mr. Edwards died, workers at his company realize how much he did for the neighborhood, and they have been circulating a petition to have a street named after him.

• After Mr. Edwards died, workers at his company realized how much he had done for the neighborhood, and they have been circulating

• After Mr. Edwards died, workers at his company realized what he did for the neighborhood and since then they have circulated

• When Mr. Edwards died, workers at his company, realizing how much he does for the neighborhood, had been circulating

• Mr. Edwards died, and workers at his company realized how much he had done for the neighborhood, and since then they have been circulating