ACT English Grammar Practice Questions and Answers 2024, Exams of Nursing

Download ACT English Grammar Practice Questions and Answers 2024 and more Exams Nursing in PDF only on Docsity! ACT English practice questions Question & Answers 2024 dependent clause - Correct answers ✅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 answers ✅its Contraction of "it is" - Correct answers ✅it's Which is not a correct form? its, it's, its' - Correct answers ✅its'. This form does NOT exist. They're=? - Correct answers ✅"They are" Their=? - Correct answers ✅Possessive There=? - Correct answers ✅a place Rewrite this with a possessive form of "teacher": The salary of this teacher is very high. - Correct answers ✅This teacher's salary is very high. ACT English practice questions Question & Answers 2024 Rewrite this with a possessive form of "teachers": The salaries of these teachers are very low. - Correct answers ✅These teachers' salaries are very low. Who's=? - Correct answers ✅"Who is" Whose=? - Correct answers ✅Possessive, ex: whose hat is this? When do you use a semi-colon? - Correct answers ✅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 answers ✅NO. Run-on/comma splice. Need a comma? I went to the store that sells all the vintage toys. - Correct answers ✅NO COMMA before or after "THAT" Is the comma correct? When I went to Chicago, the weather was terrible. - Correct answers ✅YES. The comma is separating a dependent clause + an independent clause, in that order. ACT English practice questions Question & Answers 2024 neither... - Correct answers ✅nor... either... - Correct answers ✅or... not only... - Correct answers ✅but (also)... Correct? Would of, should of, could of, must of - Correct answers ✅NO, INCORRECT. There is no such phrase in English. CORRECT: would have Whether (this)... - Correct answers ✅Or (that)... Colon - Correct answers ✅a punctuation mark used after an independent clause to introduce a list tesnse - Correct answers ✅the form of the verb that tells what time the action happened verb - Correct answers ✅a word that expresses an action, a feeling, or a state of being subject - Correct answers ✅the topic of the sentence ACT English practice questions Question & Answers 2024 pronoun - Correct answers ✅a word that stands in for a noun prepositional phrase - Correct answers ✅a group of words that starts with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun preposition - Correct answers ✅a word that describes time or place relationships between words noun - Correct answers ✅a person, place, thing, or idea misplaced modifer - Correct answers ✅any kind of description that is put in the wrong place in a sentence and thus describes the wrong thing interjection - Correct answers ✅an introductory word often used for emphasis independent clause - Correct answers ✅a group of words that has a subject and a verb and can stand alone as a sentence idiom - Correct answers ✅a figure of speech that follows no grammatical rules ACT English practice questions Question & Answers 2024 gerund - Correct answers ✅a noun turned into a verb by adding "ing" conjunction - Correct answers ✅a word that joins words, phrases, or clauses adverb - Correct answers ✅a word that modifies or describes a verb, adjective, or other adverb adjective - Correct answers ✅a word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun active voice - Correct answers ✅use of the verb so that the subject is performing, not receiving, the action passive voice - Correct answers ✅the noun appears to be the object instead of the subject; the performer is receiving the action instead of doing it