ACT English - Best Placement Questions

Read the following sentence.

I almost watched every YouTube video I could find with cute cats, but I stopped myself.

Where is the best placement for the word “almost”?

• where it is now

• after "myself"

• after "every"

• after "watched"

For plankton tows, we would stand on the bridge while Mom lowered a cone-shaped net that is often used by marine biologists. [14] Then we would patiently wait. After a while, she would pull up the net, and we would go home. Later, we would see her sitting at the kitchen table, peering at a drop of water [15] through the lenses of her microscope from the bottle—watching the thousands of tiny swimming organisms.

15. The best placement for the underlined portion would be:

• where it is now

• after the word lenses.

• after the word microscope.

• after the word bottle (but before the dash).

The best placement for the underlined portion would be:

[1] The origin of Sudoku is attributed to Leonhard Euler, the Swiss mathematician who sometimes developed the game Magic Squares in 1783. [2] In fact, Euler’s game was actually based on a game derived from Chinese folklore.

• where it is now.

• before the word origin.

• before the word attributed.

• before the word Swiss.

One Sunday morning in September, I convinced several friends to accompany me to a wildlife preserve famous for the remarkable number of Canada geese that stop during their annual migration there.

The best placement for the underlined phrase would be:

• where it is now

• after the word "preserve"

• after the word "geese"

• after the word "there," ending the sentence with a period.

One of them was for children a sports complex in his homeland.

The best placement for the underlined portion would be:

• where it is now

• after the word "them"

• after the word "complex"

• after the word "homeland," ending the sentence with a period

Of course, these days even an entire untouched penny hardly lying on the sidewalk is worth bending over to pick up.

The best placement for the underlined portion would be:

• where it is now

• after the word "days"

• after the word "is"

• after the word "worth"

In fact, when it was almost two decades ago becoming clear that Greece would join the Common Market, officials began to look for for translators three years in advance.

The best placement for the underlined portion would be:

• where it is now

• After the word "clear"

• After the word "join"

• After the word "began"

However, the real money again comes in the form of "residuals": performers are paid each time their commercial airs on television.

The best placement for the underlined portion would be:

• where it is now

• Before the word "performers"

• Before the word "each"

• Before the word "television"

Anderson wrote that she was in her autobiography so nervous she barely remembered that day.

The best placement for the underlined portion would be:

• where it is now

• After the word "wrote"

• After the word "nervous"

• After the word "day," and end the sentence with a period