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http://sat.collegeboard.org/practice/sat-question-of-the-day?questionId=20140121&oq=1 (This link takes you to today’s question. If you use my archive, you will see the question related to my SAT explanation for that date.)
The answer is A. “In addition to” is the proper phrase to go with “and” rather than beginning the phrase with “also.” It is an idiomatic structure like many others in the English language that you should memorize. I recommend you visit http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html and you’ll find a fantastic list of common errors in the English language.
Let’s see what the ACT folks have for us today.
ACT Question of the Day: Use your “back” button to return to my website after reading the ACT Question of the Day.
The answer is H. We’ve done this question many times before because the ACT folks keep using the same questions over and over. There’s an adjectival clause, “from the American Southwest,” that describes the place where she’d been born. We need to fix two things. First, we need a relative pronoun “where” to go with the phrase. Second, the clause needs a comma. Whenever you use a relative or adjectival clause that is not essential to the sentence or is not restrictive (doesn’t provide information related to specifying a specific noun, often a person), then you need to use a comma to set it off. Please take a look at Video #9 for more details.
I hope you have a productive short, 4-day week!
The SAT & ACT Wizard
