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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by a tornadic waterspouts. Which cause significantly

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fewer problems than tornadic water fountains.

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The writer is considering omitting the underlined phrase below:

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which can reach up to 310 miles per hour

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If the writer makes this omission, the paragraph would primarily lose what?

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And here are the potential answers...

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To answer this question correctly, we need to dig in to the context surrounding the underlined portion and assess what it adds to the paragraph as a whole.

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Should it be placed on the chopping block? Or will the writer lose something vital by

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cutting it loose?

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Choice (C) is wrong because the phrase in question says nothing about why tornadic waterspouts

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might be responsible for fish and frogs raining from the sky.

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We're guessing it's because tornadic waterspouts have a twisted sense of humor, but we could be wrong.

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We're gonna say no to choice (D) as well. "Miles per hour" are far from an obscure unit of measurement.

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Unless you're a person who's never driven an automobile, ridden in an automobile, or

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heard tales of people who've driven and ridden in automobiles.

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Choice (B) claims that the underlined segment isn't important in the slightest, but choice

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(A) proves it wrong.

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This phrase provides specific information that's in direct contrast to the "100 miles

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per hour" of a tornadic waterspout.

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Therefore, (A) is the correct answer.

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We have a great idea for a movie chase scene: a guy in a Ferrari tries to outrun a tornadic

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waterspout as fish and frogs rain down behind him.

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