Victory for the ACT Exam 16e TG Sample

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III. UNIT 1 | GRAMMAR AND USAGE......................................................................... 53 A. Subject-Verb Agreement (Item #1) ................................................................................ 53–59 1. Material Inserted Between Subject and Verb (Items #2–7) ......54–57 2. Inverted Sentence Structure (Items #8–9) ................................... 57–58 3. Compound Subjects (Items #10–12) ............................................... 58–59 B. Pronoun Usage ...............................................................................................................60–66 1. Pronouns Must Have Antecedents (Items #13–14) ...................... 60–61 2. Antecedents Must Be Clear (Item #15) ................................................... 61 3. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement (Items #16–19) ........................ 62–63 4. Pronouns Must Have Proper Case (Items #20–21) .................... 64–66 C. Adjectives versus Adverbs ...........................................................................................66–70 1. Adjectives Modify Nouns; Adverbs Modify Verbs, D. Exit Ticket #1..................................................................................................................... 71–73 E. Double Negatives (Items #29–30) ...................................................................................... 74 F. Nouns and Noun Clauses (Items #31–33) ....................................................................75–77 G. Faulty or Illogical Comparisons (Items #34–38) ......................................................... 77–81 H. Verb Tense ........................................................................................................................81–86 1. Principal Parts of Verbs (Items #39–41) ......................................... 82–83 2. When to Use the Perfect Tenses (Items #42–44) ....................... 83–84 3. The Subjunctive Mood (Items #45–46) ......................................... 85–86 4. Sequence and Verb Tense (Items #47–50) ...............................87–89 J. Diction ............................................................................................................................... 89–92 1. Wrong Preposition (Items #51–52) ................................................. 89–90 2. Wrong Word Choice (Items #53–54) ............................................... 90–91 3. Gerund versus Infinitive (Items #55–56) ........................................ 91–92 D. Exit Ticket #2................................................................................................................... 93–95 IV. UNIT 2 | SENTENCE STRUCTURE .......................................................................96 A. Run-On Sentences (Items #1–2) .................................................................................... 97–98 B. Comma Splices (Items #3–4) .........................................................................................98–99 C. Fragments (Items #5–6) ............................................................................................... 99–100 D. Problems of Coordination and Subordination (Items #7–14) .................................101–103 E. Exit Ticket #1.................................................................................................................104–105 F. Faulty Parallelism (Items #15–17) ...............................................................................106–107 G. Incomplete Split Constructions (Items #18–19) .......................................................107–108 H. Misplaced Modifiers (Items #20–22) ........................................................................ 109–110 I. Unintended Meanings (Items #23–24) ....................................................................... 111–112 J. Exit Ticket #2..................................................................................................................112–114 Adjectives, and Other Adverb (Items #22– 23) .......................... 66–68 2. Linking Verbs (Items #24–25) .......................................................... 68–69 3. Watch for Adjectives Posing as Adverbs (Items #26–28) ........ 69–70