Download ACT English Practice Questions and Answers and more Exams Nursing in PDF only on Docsity! ACT English practice questions And Answers (Latest exams 2023) dependent clause - Correct Answer ✅cannot stand on it's own. ex: "when I went to Europe" "because I am a teacher" "after I called the doctor" Possessive of "it" - Correct Answer ✅its Contraction of "it is" - Correct Answer ✅it's Which is not a correct form? its, it's, its' - Correct Answer ✅its'. This form does NOT exist. They're=? - Correct Answer ✅"They are" Their=? - Correct Answer ✅Possessive There=? - Correct Answer ✅a place Rewrite this with a possessive form of "teacher": The salary of this teacher is very high. - Correct Answer ✅This teacher's salary is very high. ACT English practice questions And Answers (Latest exams 2023) Rewrite this with a possessive form of "teachers": The salaries of these teachers are very low. - Correct Answer ✅These teachers' salaries are very low. Who's=? - Correct Answer ✅"Who is" Whose=? - Correct Answer ✅Possessive, ex: whose hat is this? When do you use a semi-colon? - Correct Answer ✅On the ACT, it's the same as a period. Are the commas correct? Jacksonville is Florida's largest city by land area, however, it is not the largest by population. - Correct Answer ✅NO. Run-on/comma splice. Need a comma? I went to the store that sells all the vintage toys. - Correct Answer ✅NO COMMA before or after "THAT" Is the comma correct? When I went to Chicago, the weather was terrible. - Correct Answer ✅YES. The comma is separating a dependent clause + an independent clause, in that order. ACT English practice questions And Answers (Latest exams 2023) neither... - Correct Answer ✅nor... either... - Correct Answer ✅or... not only... - Correct Answer ✅but (also)... Correct? Would of, should of, could of, must of - Correct Answer ✅NO, INCORRECT. There is no such phrase in English. CORRECT: would have Whether (this)... - Correct Answer ✅Or (that)... Colon - Correct Answer ✅a punctuation mark used after an independent clause to introduce a list tesnse - Correct Answer ✅the form of the verb that tells what time the action happened verb - Correct Answer ✅a word that expresses an action, a feeling, or a state of being subject - Correct Answer ✅the topic of the sentence ACT English practice questions And Answers (Latest exams 2023) pronoun - Correct Answer ✅a word that stands in for a noun prepositional phrase - Correct Answer ✅a group of words that starts with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun preposition - Correct Answer ✅a word that describes time or place relationships between words noun - Correct Answer ✅a person, place, thing, or idea misplaced modifer - Correct Answer ✅any kind of description that is put in the wrong place in a sentence and thus describes the wrong thing interjection - Correct Answer ✅an introductory word often used for emphasis independent clause - Correct Answer ✅a group of words that has a subject and a verb and can stand alone as a sentence idiom - Correct Answer ✅a figure of speech that follows no grammatical rules gerund - Correct Answer ✅a noun turned into a verb by adding "ing" ACT English practice questions And Answers (Latest exams 2023) conjunction - Correct Answer ✅a word that joins words, phrases, or clauses adverb - Correct Answer ✅a word that modifies or describes a verb, adjective, or other adverb adjective - Correct Answer ✅a word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun active voice - Correct Answer ✅use of the verb so that the subject is performing, not receiving, the action passive voice - Correct Answer ✅the noun appears to be the object instead of the subject; the performer is receiving the action instead of doing it
