Today’s ACT question of the day is another English question from the passage about radio. The writer has decided to add a sentence to the passage, and we have to choose where it will fit best.

The sentence:

Nowadays, no matter where you are, it’s hard to be far from a radio.

This sounds like the kind of sentence that either opens or concludes a passage as a whole – it’s broad, it ties the subject back to the present, and it serves somewhat to summarize the passage.

Our options are to place this sentence in paragraphs 2, 3, or 4.

Paragraphs 2 and 3 are about historical events in the development of radio. There’s no room for mentions of the present day.

Paragraph 4, however, concludes with a look into the future:

“…and the untapped potential of the airwaves
began to be realized.”

Our new sentence would fit nicely after this one. Choice J makes that possible!