Victory fot the ACT Exam 16e ST Sample

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III. UNIT 1 | GRAMMAR AND USAGE.......................................................................... 16 A. Subject-Verb Agreement (Item #1) ........................................................................................ 16 1. Material Inserted Between Subject and Verb (Items #2–7) ........16–17 2. Inverted Sentence Structure (Items #8–9) ............................................ 17 3. Compound Subjects (Items #10–12) ........................................................ 17 B. Pronoun Usage .......................................................................................................................18 1. Pronouns Must Have Antecedents (Items #13–14) .............................. 18 2. Antecedents Must Be Clear (Item #15) ................................................... 18 3. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement (Items #16–19) ................................. 18 4. Pronouns Must Have Proper Case (Items #20–21) ............................. 19 C. Adjectives versus Adverbs ...................................................................................................19 1. Adjectives Modify Nouns; Adverbs Modify Verbs, D. Double Negatives (Items #29–30) ...................................................................................... 20 E. Nouns and Noun Clauses (Items #31–33) .......................................................................... 20 F. Faulty or Illogical Comparisons (Items #34–38) ................................................................ 21 G. Verb Tense ...............................................................................................................................21 1. Principal Parts of Verbs (Items #39–41) .......................................... 21–22 2. When to Use the Perfect Tenses (Items #42–44) ...............................22 3. The Subjunctive Mood (Items #45–46) .................................................22 4. Sequence and Verb Tense (Items #47–50) .................................. 22–23 H. Diction...................................................................................................................................... 23 IV. UNIT 2 | SENTENCE STRUCTURE .......................................................................24 A. Run-On Sentences (Items #1–2) ........................................................................................... 24 B. Comma Splices (Items #3–4) ................................................................................................ 24 C. Fragments (Items #5–6) ........................................................................................................ 25 D. Problems of Coordination and Subordination (Items #7–14) ...................................25–26 E. Faulty Parallelism (Items #15–17) ......................................................................................... 26 F. Incomplete Split Constructions (Items #18–19) ................................................................. 26 G. Misplaced Modifiers (Items #20–22) .................................................................................. 27 H. Unintended Meanings (Items #23–24) ............................................................................... 27 V. UNIT 3 | PUNCTUATION ........................................................................................ 28 A. Commas (Items #1–20) ....................................................................................................28–31 B. Semicolons (Items #21–25) .................................................................................................... 31 C. Colons (Items #26–27) .......................................................................................................... 32 D. End-Stop Punctuation (Item #28) ........................................................................................ 32 Adjectives, and Other Adverb (Items #22– 23) ................................... 19 2. Linking Verbs (Items #24–25) ................................................................... 19 3. Watch for Adjectives Posing as Adverbs (Items #26–28) ......... 19–20 1. Wrong Preposition (Items #51–52) ......................................................... 23 2. Wrong Word Choice (Items #53–54) ...................................................... 23 3. Gerund versus Infinitive (Items #55–56) ............................................... 23