ACT Sentence Structure Questions

Choose the answer that best corrects the underlined portion of the sentence. If the underlined portion is correct as written, choose "NO CHANGE."

If we made even a slight mistake. The entire project could be ruined.

• NO CHANGE

• slight mistake, our

• slight mistake our

• slight mistake; our

• slight mistake: ouR

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CCSS.L.9-10.1

CCSS.L.9-10.2

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

Then Renee, who has a degree from a beauty school, inserts the thin braided extensions, one by one, using a large crochet needle to pull them through the cornrows.

• NO CHANGE

• Renee, having graduated from a local beauty school,

• Renee

• OMIT the underlined portion.

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CCSS.L.9-10.1

CCSS.W.9-10.4

Each synthetic braid is tied to my natural hair with a tight double knot, which Renee guarantees it will not unravel.

• NO CHANGE

• that it

• they

• OMIT the underlined portion

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CCSS.L.9-10.1

If you were to ask my mother what she remembers most vividly about my birth. She might tell you about the gift my father brought me while I was still in the hospital: a soccer ball.

• NO CHANGE

• still in the hospital;

• still, in the hospital,

• still in the hospital

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CCSS.L.9-10.2

My dad insists that it was the endless hours he spent kicking the ball to me when I was five or six helped me to develop my soccer skills.

• NO CHANGE

• because of

• being

• OMIT the underlined portion

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

Even though he would go after the ball at full speed, he never hurt me.

• NO CHANGE

• (Do NOT begin new paragraph) Just as

• (Begin new paragraph) Despite the fact that

• (Begin new paragraph) Even though

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CCSS.L.9-10.1

CCSS.L.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

It has been for ten years since those days, but I can still remember how good I felt every time I won the ball from Max.

• NO CHANGE

• over

• more then

• passed

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

The word vegalah is Yiddish for "little wagon," and when I was growing up in the Bronx, that's what we called the hip-high wire basket on two wheels that my parents used for all sorts of errands.

• NO CHANGE

• hip-high, wire, basket, on two wheels

• hip-high wire basket on two wheels,

• hip-high wire, basket on two wheels,

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CCSS.L.9-10.1

CCSS.L.9-10.2

Instead, they kept the cart by the front door, ready for when they needed to haul laundry down the long basement orridor to the washing machines even to carry flour, chocolate, and walnuts to my grandmother's Popham avenue apartment, where my sister preferred to bake.

• NO CHANGE

• or

• as if

• OMIT the underlined portion

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

That cart usually contains piles of fabric topped off with something fancy, such as a bunch of peacock feathers or a spool of lace.

Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable?

• fancy:

• as fancy as

• fancy

• fancy, perhaps

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4