About ACT English Grammar
The ACT english Grammar section tests mainly two things which include usage of english mechanics and rhetorical skills. The way it is set up is, just like the reading section, there will be a long passage for you to read and occasionally there will be underlines with a number underneath which indicate the question number and it asks you to decide weather the string of text is using the right rhetoric and/or grammar mechanics. Just like reading there will be a set of these questions for that one passage until you are done with that passage then you are given a new one then repeat.
What does it test?
Mechanics
Punctuation(10-15%)
Grammatical rules (15-20%): SV agreements, Pronoun-antecedent agreement
Sentence Structure(20-25%)
Rhetorical skill
Strategy (15-20%)
Organisation(10-15%)
Style(15-20%)
Rhetorical Skill:
Strategy: Questions that test how well you can develop a given topic by choosing words or phrases that match an essay's audience and purpose.
Organisation: test how well you organize ideas and choose effective opening, transitional, and closing sentences. These questions tend to focus on the beginning and ends of paragraph
Style: test how well you select precise and appropriate words and images, maintain the level of style and tone in an essay, manage sentence elements for rhetorical effectiveness, and avoid ambiguous pronoun references, wordiness, and redundancy.
ACT ENGLISH GRAMMAR NOTES: (ALL ARE SAT COMPATIBLE!)
-TY SAMUEL YUEN !!!!