ACT English Question

mathisfun111
Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:34:58 +0000

On the June test the only English question I missed was #50. The sentence involving #50 is below. the () is the underlined portion.

“Baca imagined the (mural, on the channel wall) as a timeline.”

Please note that a few sentences before the passage stated

“The project was comissioned by Los Angeles city officials, who wanted well-known local muralist Baca to beautify the channel area.”

The correct answer is “mural on the channel wall,” but I said “mural, on the channel wall,” because it can be taken out and still read the same. You aren’t losing any neccessary information because it talked about how she is going to do the mural on the channel wall.

I know the ACT doesn’t like leaving in unneccessary punctuation, but I don’t see how my answer is wrong.

Please explain so I can be sure not to make this mistake again.

Thanks so much!