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About This Drill
ACT English — Topic Development — Drill 3 is a English practice drill covering Topic Development. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
Topic Development questions ask you to decide whether a sentence should be kept or deleted, choose the most relevant detail, and evaluate whether a passage has achieved a stated goal. This drill emphasizes "does the essay accomplish its goal" questions, which require reading the full passage and evaluating the writer's success against a specific stated purpose.
Questions in This Drill
- The writer is considering deleting the underlined sentence. Should it be kept or deleted?
- The writer wants to add an opening sentence at [A] that effectively introduces the paragraph's main idea. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?
- The writer is considering deleting the underlined sentence. Should it be kept or deleted?
- The writer wants to add a sentence at [A] that explains why the temperature difference matters for city residents. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?
- The writer is considering deleting the underlined sentence. Should it be kept or deleted?