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ACT Question of the Day Explained – February 14, 2014 – English

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.

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SAT Question of the Day Explained – January 24, 2014 – Improving Sentences

Arthur Ashe, 1975

Today’s SAT question of the day is an improving sentences question about a stadium in New York that is named for Arthur Ashe.  We have several pieces of information in this sentence that need to be organized properly:

  • The main stadium of the US Open is in NY
  • Arthur Ashe won the first ever US Open men’s singles title in 1968
  • The main US Open stadium is named after Arthur Ashe Continue reading

ACT Question of the Day Explained – January 13, 2014 – English

baseballToday’s ACT question of the day presents a key piece of information that is out of order in its sentence.

The paragraph in which it appears is about a professor who is preoccupied by baseball. The underlined statement is not intended to refer to the professor, though that is the confusing situation with which we are presented. So, what do we do?

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