Today’s ACT question of the day is an English question from the passage about baseball. We’re asked to fix the underlined part of this sentence (only the first part of which is pasted below, because the final clause doesn’t affect us):
I was a freshman at a university that was located in the Midwest at the time,
There is nothing egregiously wrong with this sentence, but it could be better. Continue reading
Bessie Coleman
Today’s ACT question of the day also comes from the English passage about Bessie Coleman. Our given sentence begins:
After both semesters of the two-semester year
at Langston Industrial College….
If she studied for both semesters of a two semester year, how long did she study? Continue reading
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