April 2012 English Discussion

<p>@Jordan: For the “cools” question, you put “had cooled”? I thought none of them worked and I just said “cools”. The question was in the section about making statues for people who don’t remember.</p>

<p>What wassss the answer foooor the one with now know that, was there no grammitcal punctuation?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!</p>

<p>what was the one that originally started with “Growing up in Kentucky, …” (no change, choice A)?</p>

<p>I think I picked “Where I grew up in Kentucky, …” b/c the next paragraph went on to talk about the specific location. What’s the consensus on that?</p>

<p>@NCdukie I also picked “Where I grew up in Kentucky…” </p>

<p>While both choices are grammatically correct, I think that this choice is correct because the author was very specific about the area she lived in (talking about the stream and many details.) Fossils weren’t abundant everywhere in Kentucky, but they were in the area she grew up in.</p>

<p>ok sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet! atleast i got a 36 on one section lol</p>

<p>is it possible that people got two different tests? i never had anything about kentucky? Did you guys have something about a cameraman who works for the NLCL, or something like that?</p>

<p>I did not have anything about a cameraman. There were likely multiple tests.</p>

<p>those ****ers! did you have anything about someones organization skills?</p>

<p>disregard----I had Battle, Daguerre, Merian (metamorphasis paintings) and the one about fossils in kentucky.</p>

<p>three of those were reading passages, kentucky was in the english section though</p>

<p>so what was everyones english section about?</p>

<p>what was the answer for the question that was like what is not an alternative to eons of geologic time and had stride, period, length as answers?</p>

<p>@rc777az I believe it is stride. The other ones worked out.</p>

<p>what did you guys get for the question on apostrophes? I forgot the word but was it s’ or 's?</p>

<p>That “apostrophe” question was related to the diner question, right? I think I put “no” apostrophe. It was “…while they filled up the fuel tanks of the engines,” right?</p>

<p>Too many semi-colon/colon questions on this section. It wasn’t so bad though. </p>

<p>What did you guys get for the one where it was, like, um “…they (the fossils) were common where we lived?”</p>

<p>(My memory sucks. Sorry. Can’t remember the exact wording.)</p>

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I said period :frowning: I think I’m the only one too. I’m still not 100% convinced that it’s wrong though. My reasoning was they could all talk about the time between the dinosaurs and the present (original was span), except period would only refer to the time of the dinosaurs, not all the time in between.</p>

<p>have you never heard the expression period of time?</p>

<p>you definitely can’t have a stride of time…</p>

<p>100% sure stride was the right answer there.</p>

<p>runallday4: I think you’re over-thinking it, mate. </p>

<p>My philosophy with the ACT: if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it’s a duck. </p>

<p>I mean, I get where you’re coming from, but the ACT wouldn’t be that pedantic…</p>

<p>(I pray so, at least.)</p>

<p>Stride is not a word used for time. Period is, and its often used to talk about the time in between two events. As an example, in simple harmonic motion the period is the time it takes to return to the original position.</p>

<p>for the eons question:</p>

<p>was “amount” one of the options for that? I think that’s what I put, because amount refers to something that cannot be counted (i think they were talking about years, so amount wouldn’t work?)</p>