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ACT Question of the Day Explained – January 29, 2014 – English, Wordiness

Bessie Coleman

Today’s ACT question of the day is an English question from the passage we saw just over a week ago about Bessie Coleman.  Today we are looking at underlined portion 5 to see how best to revise it.

Portion 5 comes between a sentence about when she was born and where she would end up and a sentence about life in Oklahoma.  The underlined sentence gives us information about how long ago 1893 was, and there’s nothing grammatically wrong with the sentence as it’s written.  Continue reading