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ACT Grammar/English

ACT Grammar/English . Tips and strategies. You’re here…now what else? Other ways of succeeding. Research has shown that there is a difference between earning perfect scores and just average scores: Time Studying Perfect-Score Student – 10 hours/week Average-Score Student – 9 hours/week

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ACT Grammar/English

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  1. ACT Grammar/English Tips and strategies

  2. You’re here…now what else? Other ways of succeeding. • Research has shown that there is a difference between earning perfect scores and just average scores: • Time Studying • Perfect-Score Student – 10 hours/week • Average-Score Student – 9 hours/week • Pleasure Reading • Perfect-Score Student – 5 hours/week • Average-Score Student – 4 hours/week • School Reading • Perfect-Score Student – 9 hours/week • Average-Score Student – 4 hours/week • TV Watching • Perfect-Score Student – 4 hours/week • Average-Score Student – 5 hours/week

  3. You’re here…now what else? Other ways of succeeding. • Computer Use • Perfect-Score Student – 6 hours/week • Average-Score Student – 8 hours/week • Sports • Perfect-Score Student – 7 hours/week • Average-Score Student – 9 hours/week • Socializing • Perfect-Score Student – 8 hours/week • Average-Score Student – 14 hours/week • Clubs • Perfect-Score Student – 6 hours/week • Average-Score Student – 7 hours/week • Work • Perfect-Score Student – 9 hours/week (based on 25% who worked) • Average-Score Student – 20 hours/week (based on 62% who worked)

  4. Success – It’s a Mindset • Intellectually Curious • Self-Motivated • Read • Voluminously • Voraciously • Interestedly • Passionate • Create Luck • Find Support • Success in Life

  5. Major Grammar Errors in the English Test • This section of the test (ACT or SAT) focuses on two major areas: Grammar errors within a sentence and sentence structure errors. • There are 8 major areas of errors in the grammar field that can be found in the ACT or SAT. • Pronoun Errors • Subject-Verb Agreement • Tense Errors (verbs) • Parallelism • Double Negative • Adverb Errors • Gerund Errors • Wrong Words

  6. Errors in Sentence Structure • There are four major errors that pop up on the ACT or SAT sentence structure questions: • Passive Voice • Run-on Sentences (wordiness) • Misplaced modifiers • Parallelism problems (conjunction, fragments, coordination/subordination) • Under these main categories, there are smaller, more specific errors.

  7. Common Occurrences of Errors in sentence structure • Verb Errors () • Fragment () • Tense Switches ( ½) • S-V-A ( ½) • Passive Voice () • Connection Errors () • Parallelism () • Comma Splice () • Run-on Sentences (½) • Logical Connection ( ½) • Style () • Wordiness ( ½) • Awkwardness ( ½) • Pronoun Errors () • Pronoun Number () • Reference errors () • Expectation () • Coordination ( ½) • Idiom ( ½) • Logical Comparison () • Other Errors • Misplaced Modification () • Redundancy ( ½)

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