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ACT English: Organization Drill 1, Problem 5. Which is the correct transition word?
- Rhetorical Skills / Organization: Sentences and Paragraphs
- Product Type / ACT English
- English I EOC Assessment / Introductory and Concluding Paragraphs
- English I EOC Assessment / Organization
- Oral and Written Conventions / Parts of Speech
- Essay Revision / Coherence, Organization, and Word Choice
- Essay Revision / Rhetorical Effectiveness and Use of Organization
- Rhetorical Skills / Organization
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- 00:03
Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by multiple choice. Like, why can't it be
- 00:08
stop, drop OR roll?
- 00:11
How would you correct the underlined portion of the following sentence, if at all?
- 00:15
There were several options to choose from; moreover there was only one right choice.
- 00:29
Okay, so here we're looking for the transition word that helps us set up a contradiction
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- 00:32
or contrast.
- 00:34
Choice (A) is wrong because the original sentence uses "moreover" to connect the two ideas.
- 00:39
"Moreover" is usually used to add one idea to another, not to set up a contradiction.
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So, we're sure (A) is confused and should probably seek professional help.
- 00:51
(C) tries "similarly" on for size, but unfortunately it just doesn't fit.
- 00:56
"Similarly" is used to connect two ideas that are, well...similar.
- 01:01
As we've said before, we're on the hunt for a word that sets up contrast, so we can
- 01:05
eliminate answer ©.
- 01:07
Choice (D) offers "finally," which doesn't set up a contrast either. "Finally" is used
- 01:11
to hammer home the final point of an argument.
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It's good for listing the concluding points of an essay or paragraph, but that's about it.
- 01:19
If we were writing a manifesto declaring why our former friend, Boris, is a jerk, we might
- 01:23
end it with a kicker like...
- 01:25
"Finally, Boris is a jerk because he put a dead rat in the punch at the New Year's Eve
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Though "finally" might be good in that kind of a situation, it's no good for setting up
- 01:35
contrasts. So we can get rid of (D).
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Choice (B) gets it right by using "however" to correctly set up the contrast between the
- 01:42
two clauses.
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Although the speaker has several questions to choose from, only one can be right.
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Hey, sounds a lot like the situation we were just presented with. Look at he ACT getting
- 01:52
all meta on us.
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