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

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1G

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.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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.

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

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.

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

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

• NO CHANGE

• at no moment ever

• never ever

• never

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.4.1C

The other entries were returned back to their owners.

• NO CHANGE

• sent back and given

• put back and returned

• returned

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1D

What word or phrase should be deleted?

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

• tragedy

• at work

• terrible

• getting

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A