Victory for the ACT Student Text 15e

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26. (H) English/Conventions of Standard English/Grammar and Usage/Diction The original sentence is incorrect because “for” does not have the meaning required by the sentence. (H) solves this problem. (G) is wrong because it is not idiomatic. (J) is wrong because the omission of the phrase creates a meaningless sentence. A. NO CHANGE B. of great enormity C. which is huge D. OMIT the underlined portion. 27. (D) English/Productio of Writing/Style/ Conciseness The underlined phrase “of enormous size” is needlessly repetitious of “large,” so it should be deleted. 28. F. NO CHANGE G. nucleus and gas H. nucleus. Gas J. nucleus gas 28. (G) English/Conventions of Standard English/Sentence Structure/Problems of Coordination and Subordination and Punctuation/Semicolons The material that follows the semicolon is not an independent clause because it lacks a conjugated verb; therefore, the semicolon is incorrect. The material following the semicolon must be incorporated into the main body of the sentence, so the semicolon should be changed to “and,” (G). (H) is wrong because everything following the period would be a sentence fragment. As for (J), no punctuation at all creates a run-on sentence. 27.

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