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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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than humans do


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Okay See th s spyros Here we go Two of

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twelve van humans d'oh All right That's our focus here

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Here's paragraph We just read it But if you have

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the attention with goldfish let's just do it again Everything

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they believed in jaws gravy train my mind killer Depending

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on how the truck's interviewed our future nfl fantasy animals

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have shocked when viewed in terms Probability of death by

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shark attack is extremely rare Unless you're right middle of

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shark nato or meg nato coming to a theater near

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you soon point In reality great white sharks pose less

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of a threat to humans than humans do in all

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other shark species for that matter No So let's think

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about this Perhaps we're biased but it's hard for us

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to imagine a great white shark posing less harm to

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humans than humans posed to ourselves or to great whites

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Nonetheless the author's making a strong case for that line

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of thinking While the author has a point her sentence

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doesn't do a great job of communicating It says great

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whites pose less threat to humans than humans do That's

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what she said What are humans posing a threat to

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hear dinosaurs Yeah only by adding than humans posed too

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great white sharks Yeah that's the thought Finished in a

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way that's grammatically correct right So the answer's got to

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be b loser bowl here Changing the original order of

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sense doesn't clarify anything And while adding another proposition and

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sentence makes the comparison even more confusing like indie there

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do you have The answer is b and it would

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read In reality great white sharks pose less of a

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threat to humans than humans posed Too great white sharks

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and all other shark species for that matter Yeah what's

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with that plastic island the size of texas floating around

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out there Isn't that like a shark trapper shouldn't we

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be ashamed that we created something like that It's just 00:01:59.306 --> [endTime] anger

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Which of the following would be the most logical order of sentences in Paragraph 2?