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ACT English Difficulty: Hard (540)

Digital ACT English Practice Question #1888

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Choose the best option for the underlined portion: The marine biologist, accompanied by two graduate students, were collecting water samples near the coral reef.
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Cross out parenthetical phrases to find true subject: biologist was collecting.

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The subject is "The marine biologist" (singular). Intervening parenthetical phrases like "accompanied by..." do not alter subject number. Use singular "was collecting"....

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