WorksheetsACT - Style & Rhetoric
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 20mins
On the ACT test, (a) choices are preferred over wordy choices, even if the sentence "sounds smarter."
Two of these are solid advice for taking the ACT:
If it doesn't fit, you must omit! (i.e., if the sentence seems out of place or irrelevant, take it out)
When you're stressed, quit the test! (i.e, just fill in your letter of the day and take a nap)
When in doubt, take it out! (i.e., if you're on the fence about whether a sentence is necessary or not, delete it)
When in doubt, scream and shout! (and then see what Mrs. Lund does)
On the ACT (and everywhere, actually), your sentences should:
make sense.
be grammatically correct.
express a complete thought.
fit the tone of the overall passage.
You should show off your worldliness by using the following words as much as possible during the ACT:
sus
none of these
bruh
yep
gonna
The ACT may ask you to select a word or phrase that best expresses an emotion or particular idea.
TRUE
FALSE
Sometimes the ACT will offer you several options and ask you to pick the BEST one. This means the rest are grammatically or otherwise incorrect.
TRUE
FALSE
For many questions on the ACT English test, you will need to understand the connotation, or implied meaning, of a text in order to choose the appropriate answer.
TRUE
FALSE
Why you always in a
classroom?
mood?
mask?
school?
Look at the underlined sentence after the number 8. The writer is considering deleting it. Should the sentence be kept or deleted?
Kept, because it provides supporting evidence about the benefits of walking.
Kept, because it provides an additional example of a community stakeholder with whom transportation planners work.
Deleted, because it blurs the paragraph's focus on the community stakeholders with whom transportation planners work.
Deleted, because it doesn't provide specific examples of what the numerous benefits of walking are.
Which of the following provides a description of the cacti that is most consistent with the rest of the sentence?
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spiky & prickly
dangerous to touch
stark & domineering
For the sake of logic and coherence, Sentence 4 should be placed?
where it is now.
After Sentence 1.
After Sentence 2.
After Sentence 5.
Choose the best option regarding the underline portion.
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is unparalleled in its ability to engender, against all odds, progress from the vast majority of those pianists who partake in it.
is being known to be useful for many intermediate pianists.
has proven useful for many intermediate pianists.
According to ACT logic, which of these sentences is better?
Frances was exhausted after a long day at school.
After waking up at 6 am and spending 8 hours in class, Frances was exhausted.
They are both grammatically incorrect.
Three-hundred and eight-five years before the invention of electricity, Randamio Von Smarticus wrote a short story about a magic orb that lit up at the will of the human being in the room with a flick of the wrist near the wall.
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Randamio Von Smarticus wrote about a magic orb long ago.
Before the invention of electricity, Randamio Von Smarticus wrote about it.
Randamio Von Smarticus wrote a story about a magic, lighted orb nearly 400 years before the invention of electricity.
This one time, a long time ago, and when I say long, I mean long, this man came up to me and said how smart I was. He was intelligent, this man, and he called me intelligent so, he's right. Right?
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A smart man once complimented my intellect, therefore I am intelligent.
This one time a man said I was smart.
Men who are right are smart and compliment other smart people with no hesitation.
I just can't imagine how you could be so okay, now that I'm gone
'Cause you didn't mean what you wrote in that song about me 'cause you said forever, now I drive alone past your street yeah, you said forever, now I drive alone past your street.
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I'm confused because in the song you wrote, you said we'd be together forever, but we're not. Now, I drive alone past your street.
Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh
My life is impossibly hard without you even though you're obviously a jerk. I am a stalker with nothing better to do than drive around in circles singing a redundant song about a song you sang, which is also redundant. Also, I got my driver's license.
That guy is mean.
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That guy is happy as a clam.
That guy has a newspaper's worth of issues.
That guy is cruel.
You seem despondent. I'll cheer you up.
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Replace the underlined portion with You seem rude.
Replace the underlined portion with You must be hungry.
Replace the underlined portion with You seem sad.
In "The Blind Assassin," Margaret Atwood has great characters using lots of adjectives.
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In "The Blind Assassin," Margaret Atwood presents dynamic characters using rich imagery.
In "The Blind Assassin," Margaret Atwood presents characters using fancy words.
In "The Blind Assassin," Margaret Atwood presents.
As the District Attorney, I can present evidence to the jury.
The underlined portion can be replaced with all of these EXCEPT:
hand
show
explain
describe
As she walked, she thought about how dark the man's eyes had been, how heavily lidded. Just three days before, he was wide awake and bringing her coffee. She had barely recognized him.
Which of the following best describes the woman's feelings about the man?
She's happy to see him.
She is concerned about his well-being.
She loves the coffee he's made for her.
She doesn't know him at all.
1. I looked down at her, but then we weren't children any longer.
2. Where's mine? said Laura, in her five-year-old's voice.
3. Laura had grown old, like me; her eyes were little dried raisins.
In which order should these sentences be placed?
1,2,3
2,3,1
3,2,1
2,1,3
The underlined portion does all of the following
EXCEPT:
explains why Miley Cyrus has lost her fan base
provides examples of Mily Cyrus's increasingly adult behavior
serves as a contrast between Cyrus's earlier years versus her more mature image
exemplifies child stars' desire to grow up quickly and leave their youthful appearance in the past.
One of the most influential niche constructors is the earthworm, an organism found almost everywhere on the planet. 1 A scientist only concerned with evolution would predict that, in order to live on land, earthworms would have to significantly change. Earthworms didn’t change their physiology a great amount, however, instead, they changed the soil to make it more like the ocean in order to survive. Land with earthworms is less compacted, is more nutrient rich, and better mixed than land without them – leading to monumental changes in the ecosystem.
The author is considering adding the following sentence.
Earthworms were originally aquatic organisms that were ill-equipped to survive on land.
Should the author make this addition?
Yes, because it explains the prediction made in the next sentence.
No, because it distracts from the discussion on niche construction.
Yes, because it adds information about the roles of earthworms as niche creators.
No, because the author does not further address why this fact is important.
For thousands of years, cooking was considered more of a practice than a science. Much of what chefs and food scientists alike knew about cooking came from conventional wisdom rather than carefully designed research. For individuals who considered cooking to be an art rather than a science, this seemed to be for the best; however, for physicist Nicholas Kurti and chemist Herve This, the lack on empirical knowledge around what we eat was not just an affront to science. It was a challenge. In 1988 the pair coined the term “molecular gastronomy,” which they defined as the investigation of the physical and chemical transformation that ingredients undergo during the course of cooking. They argued that if chefs understood these processes, they could produce dishes improved by the findings. 1
At this point, the author is considering adding the following sentence.
"The pair’s philosophy came from the Enlightenment thinkers of the 18th century, who believed that everything could be categorized and systematized."
Should the author make this addition here?
Yes, because it reinforces a claim that is made earlier in the paragraph.
No, because it distracts from the paragraph’s focus on early experiments in molecular gastronomy.
No, because it is not relevant to the focus of the paragraph.
Yes, because it explains the origin of the phrase “molecular gastronomy”.
It is a true fact that the U.S. has more divorces per capital than any country in the world.
Timmy said the UFO he spotted was oblong in shape.
Timmy said the UFO he spotted was oblong in shape.
According to our mayor, the root cause of west-side crime is poverty.
Becky was late getting home because of a terrible tragedy at work.
The judges picked out five winners.
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picked
chose and picked
selected and named
The other entries were returned back to their owners.
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put back and returned
sent back and given
DELETE back
