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ACT Aspire English: Putting Sentences in a Logical Order
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Which of the following would be the most logical order of sentences in Paragraph 2?

Revising the Order of Sentences
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Which of the following would be the most logical order of sentences in Paragraph 4?

ACT Aspire English: Where Should the Author Add a New Sentence?
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Suppose the author wants to add the following sentence to the passage: Artists still record music and people still buy music, but not in traditiona...

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ACT Aspire English: Recognizing the Rhetorical Effects of Transitions 0 Views


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Just because


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All right Aspiring shmoop er's Here we go Just two

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left Just because Why is there two left ear That's

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the reason All right going down Paragraph five Right down

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here On it reads Just because james meredith is not

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as well known as some other civil rights figures He

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was a hero in the battle against racial discrimination and

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segregation in the u S Alright well let's think about

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this just because something's wrong Well here's the author's argument

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in a nutshell Even though meredith isn't as well known

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as other civil rights figures he made great contributions to

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the movement right So even though that's be that would

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be the right answer Not just because started a sentence

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with just because makes it sound is the first part

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of sentence explains the second part which it does not

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never less like in c can be used to indicate

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a contradiction like we have here But it would need

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to come with the second part of the sentence not

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the first Then finally even if like indie makes it

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sound as though meredith might be well known or he

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might not But the author is saying that it's a

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fact that he's not as well known with other famous

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civil rights figures like mlk We're looking at you so

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the answer here is beef Even though james meredith is

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not as well known yet again that's it or not

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