ACT English - Best Placement Questions
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English
12th Grade
CCSS covered
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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"
Tags
CCSS.L.2.1E
CCSS.L.3.1A
CCSS.L.3.1G
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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).
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.3
CCSS.RI.11-12.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.3
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
CCSS.RI.8.5
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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.
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.3A
CCSS.L.7.1C
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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.
Tags
CCSS.RI. 9-10.2
CCSS.RI.11-12.2
CCSS.RL.11-12.2
CCSS.RL.9-10.2
CCSS.RL.8.2
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
Tags
CCSS.RF.3.3B
CCSS.RF.3.3C
CCSS.RF.3.3D
CCSS.RF.4.3A
CCSS.RF.5.3A
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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"
Tags
CCSS.RI. 9-10.2
CCSS.RI.11-12.2
CCSS.RL.11-12.2
CCSS.RL.9-10.2
CCSS.RI.8.2
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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"
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.3A
CCSS.L.7.1C
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