<p><a href=“http://www.actstudent.org/sampletest/test1/engl/englishtest.html[/url]”>http://www.actstudent.org/sampletest/test1/engl/englishtest.html</a></p>
<p>ok… the first few sentences. African-American should be African American… the hyphen is a common English grammar mistake. doesn’t this challenge the veracity and credibility of an English test?</p>
<p>Not using proper grammar, spelling, or punctuation “challenges the veracity and credibility” of your statement, as well.</p>
<p>I’ve noticed mechanical mistakes on the SAT in the “Identifying Sentence Errors” section, even though they weren’t choices. It’s annoying, yes, but I don’t think a misplaced hyphen or missing comma discredits an entire test.</p>
<p>why is that a grammar mistake?
<a href=“http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/african-american[/url]”>http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/african-american</a></p>
<p>African-American is the spelling preferred by most professional editors. If the ACT uses a reading passage from a published source, it doesn’t matter how a term is spelled–it already passed muster with a professional editor (one would hope) before the ACT people saw the passage and excerpted it, and the questions based on the passage are based on real-world English usage.</p>
<p>Yeah, that seems pretty insignificant…even if it was a mistake, which I don’t think it is.</p>
<p>Definitely not a mistake. Even IF the correct noun is “African American”, this was a compound adjective or whatever they’re called. They demand hyphens.</p>