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ACT English sentence structure and formation overview quiz quiz

12questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. What three things does an independent clause need?

  2. Why is 'The volunteers cleaning the riverbank every Saturday' a fragment?

  3. Which best fixes the comma splice 'The lab ran late, the experiment needed another hour'?

  4. What punctuation does a conjunctive adverb like 'however' take between two independent clauses?

  5. Should there be a comma before 'and' in 'She trained hard and won the race'?

  6. In 'Rushing to catch the train, the platform was crowded', what is the error?

  7. Where should the modifier go in 'The teacher handed back the essays to the students covered in red ink' (the essays are covered in red ink)?

  8. Which keeps the list parallel: 'On weekends she enjoys hiking, swimming, and ___'?

  9. How must correlative conjunctions like 'not only ... but also' be used?

  10. Why is 'Tokyo's population is larger than Sydney' not parallel?

  11. Which fixes the tense in 'The researchers collected the samples, labeled each one, and then they record the results'?

  12. Is the tense shift in 'Today the factory runs on solar power, but for decades it burned coal' correct?