ACT English Flashcards & Study Review

Name what the detail does for the paragraph’s specific goal, such as giving evidence or showing the requested result.

The condition that determines which readers qualify. Remove the duplicate wording while keeping the eligibility limit.

It is a dependent clause. Because leaves the result unstated, so the clause needs a main clause or a rewrite.

State their relationship in plain terms, such as contrast, example, cause, or continuation. Choose a connector that expresses that relationship.

Remove the description. If it is extra information and the reader can still identify the subject, commas can mark both edges of the internal aside.

Use needs. Box is the singular subject. Of markers describes what is in the box.

Identify the sentence’s specific contribution and check whether the surrounding text still supplies that contribution.

A specific exception the phrase can refer to. Identify the sentence that introduces it and check that no intervening topic obscures the reference.

Look at the audience, purpose, and register of the neighboring sentences. Choose the version that fits that context.

Read the main clause and identify its subject. In this construction that subject must be the intended person balancing.

A complete independent clause. If the list is the missing object or complement of the lead-in, join it directly to the lead-in.

The gate opening. Had opened marks completion before the past reference point we arrived.