Tutor Ted Redundancy & Relevance on ACT

What is the Tutor Ted’s Rule #1 for ACT English?

• Don't trust your instincts.

• Never skim the passages.

• Shorter is better.

How can words or phrases can be redundant on the ACT?

Select all that apply

• within the answer choice

• within the sentence as a whole

• within the surrounding paragraph

(Select all the answers that are true)

An ACT answer choice would be automatically wrong if it:

• has one precise word that leaves nothing to be explained

• has two adjectives that mean the exact same thing

• has an adjective and a phrase that mean the exact same thing

• has a weird, vague phrase that adds zero meaning to sentence

On the ACT English section, look for redundancies AND

• always be biased in favor of the shortest answer

• always look for the longest, most complicated answer choice that appears before your eyes because, as everyone knows, the more words a person uses (not anyone in particular, just people in general), the smarter that person is.

Monique’s take on neo-retro art was unique and could not be replicated.

• unique

• unique without replication.

• not replicated by her.

• unique to the point of not being replicated.

Puerto Rico became an “unincorporated territory” of the United States at the end of the Spanish-American War as part of the Treaty of Paris, which was a document ending the War under agreed terms.

• Treaty of Paris, which was a document ending the war.

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Paris. It was a document ending the war under agreed terms.

• Treaty of Paris; this document ended the war.

The committee deemed the idea to cover all of the county’s farmland with asphalt both fiscally prohibitive and extremely short-sighted.

• NO CHANGE

• fiscally prohibitive.

• extremely short-sighted.

• both that it would cost too much money on top of the fact that it was dumb in the long-run.

You could never at any time convince me to get on a roller coaster.

• NO CHANGE

• at no moment ever

• never ever

• never

The other entries were returned back to their owners.

• NO CHANGE

• sent back and given

• put back and returned

• returned

What word or phrase should be deleted?

Becky was late getting home because of a terrible tragedy at work.

• tragedy

• at work

• terrible

• getting