ACT PREP ;), ACT Prep

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Step 1: choose any passage (do 1 last)
Step 2: choose any question within the passage but complete them out of order
Step 3: read the question
Step 4: strike through any words that suggest ambiguity
Step 5: restate the question if needed
Step 6: find the restatement in the text
-read 1 line above 1 line below location of restatement
Step 7: use yes or no to eliminate wrong answer choices
Step 8: confirm restatement matches answer choice

Math Path

Step 1: take the test out of order
Step 2: read the question
Step 3: read the answer choices
Step 4: diagram
Step 5: answer the question
Step 6: check your answer

Paragraph Improvement

- a sentence should be added if it contributes relevant ideas
- the sentence cannot repeat the idea

EM dash

interjections, serves same purpose as a comma sandwhich

4 Comma Rules

1. a comma sandwich
Take out the lettuce and tomato and bread
2. list: must always keep the same structure
3. a comma followed by a fanboys (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) connects two independent clauses
4. to connect a dependent clause with an independent clause
5. Semicolon connects two independent clauses

idiomatic phrases

-not only... but also
-either... or
-neither... nor
-capable of
-for all their talk
-in so doing,
-From then (If Panama were freed from then president. Referring to the past president that is no longer president)

Semi-Colon

- separates two independent claus's without fanboys
- also separates lists of categories