ACT English Practice Test: Subordinate Clause Question Preview (ID: 54829)


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That's the reason which I'm disturbed when I hear adults tell her that.
a) NO CHANGE
b) cause for why
c) for which reason
d) why

One of my clients, Andrew, had a young Irish setter named Red. Who had never been taught any commands.
a) NO CHANGE
b) Red who,
c) Red, who
d) Red; who

He called in Howe, who was in charge, of cleaning the camera room, to help shoot the scene.
a) NO CHANGE
b) whom
c) that
d) which

Red initially resisted giving up the couch and bed, but once she saw that, Andrew was truly in charge, she acquiesced.
a) NO CHANGE
b) that Andrew was,
c) that, Andrew was,
d) that Andrew was

Similarly, Pei's design for the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas, echoes the aim of city planners who wished to revitalize the Arts District while announcing Dallas's emergence as an international cultural center.
a) NO CHANGE
b) planners whom
c) planners, whom
d) planners of who

Why gather around a carpet, in which we can do just as well at home, to enjoy our hot dogs, peanuts, and sodas?
a) NO CHANGE
b) in being
c) which
d) OMIT the underlined portion.

Ms. Komiyarna, whose skilled at judo, threw the intruder across the room.
a) NO CHANGE
b) whose skilled in
c) who’s skilled of
d) who’s skilled in

A teenager whose holding a shoebox containing a kitten as tiny as a gingersnap smiles as a line of girls in frilly white communion dresses file by.
a) NO CHANGE
b) thats
c) as
d) who’s

Indeed, she identifies strongly with the griots of West Africa—those village storytellers where they use songs, poems, and narration to help preserve and transmit culture and history.
a) NO CHANGE
b) who
c) whom
d) that they

On the first night, the instructor, whom had performed in local rock bands for years, guided the class through a tortured version of Mary Had a Little Lamb.
a) NO CHANGE
b) whom once
c) who had
d) who did

You think, you might become ill.
a) NO CHANGE
b) think, that you
c) think you
d) think, you then

In Henry V, Shakespeare used this very term to describe how the names of King Henry's war heroes became as well known to English people as simple words used in any household.
a) NO CHANGE
b) had became
c) have became
d) becoming

By contrast American society has often been described as one that values the vibrant energy of youth over the wisdom and experience gained with age.
a) NO CHANGE
b) whose
c) this
d) whom

To make sure that he wasn't being deceived, Conan Doyle had the original photographic plates examined by experts, however, they found no evidence of double exposures.
a) NO CHANGE
b) who
c) which
d) they

He then wrote an enthusiastic article for Strand magazine, being the place in which most of his Sherlock Holmes stories had first appeared, and later wrote a book on the subject titled The Coming of the Fairies.
a) NO CHANGE
b) in which the magazine where
c) in which
d) being where

Other letters are solemn, speaking of relatives and friends whom had died.
a) NO CHANGE
b) who
c) who they
d) of whom

Although pharmaceutical companies that begun to produce the drug learned that taxol could be extracted from the bark of all species of yewr, they soon focused their attention on the Pacific yew.
a) NO CHANGE
b) who’d began producing
c) who begun producing
d) that began to produce

My dad is a serious soccer player who's early ambition had been to play professionally in his native country, Mexico.
a) NO CHANGE
b) that’s
c) whose
d) which

Soon, I'm afraid, those of us, who return home late, will have to spend the evening double-parked in our cars.
a) NO CHANGE
b) us who return home, late,
c) us who return home late,
d) us who return home late

Yet many people, who feel strongly, about pollution of these resources are strangely silent about protecting our environment from noise.
a) NO CHANGE
b) people who feel strongly about pollution,
c) people, who feel strongly about pollution,
d) people who feel strongly about pollution

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