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And here's your shmoop du jour brought

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to you by grocery shopping sure it's not a roller coaster ride of excitement but [Man pushing trolley cart in market]

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really what are the odds you'll be able to pick up a quart of milk on a roller

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coaster anyway all right well let's read the following sentence Jamie ran to the

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store to get milk eggs bread and cheese before going home Jamie ran to the store

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to get whole milk brown eggs sourdough bread and Parmesan cheese before going

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home and here's our question what's the most important difference between these [Question appears below sentences]

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sentences and here are potential answers.....

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geez Janey there's no need to run those groceries aren't going anywhere

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and if they are going somewhere you're probably better off running in the [Janey walks into grocery store]

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opposite direction no one likes a blocking partner milk even if it's

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chocolate and while we're running away from the walking milk we'll give you a [Janey running from chocolate milk]

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quick in when we say important here we mean important to our understanding of

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the information we've got quite a few options so let's see which one is the

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best fit starting with a alright well this one just seems flat-out wrong if we

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compare the two sentences the second one definitely has more detailed than first [Finger points to two sentences]

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for example the second sentence describes the milk with the additional

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detail whole a detail that's nowhere to be found in the first sentence and

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details tend to be really important when it comes from milk we found that out the [Man picks up carton of chocolate milk and drinks]

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hard way after we drink from a carton that could only be described as the

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spoil so a is out of here what about these anyway we haven't yet happened

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upon any important differences which we need two sentences but that doesn't mean [Easter eggs appear]

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it aren't any if you went on an Easter egg hunt didn't find any after 10

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seconds and decided to stop looking you wouldn't find many chocolate eggs Lydia

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there's chocolate hungry cousins might like the strategy but it doesn't do much [Cousins searching for easter eggs]

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for you so let's have some patience and keep looking how about the Z so we can

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definitely see that the second fence is longer but remember when we say

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importance here important to our understanding of the

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information longer is definitely important if you're trying to win the [Alligators appear on house front lawn]

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contest for longest alligator which was weird contests but hey who are we judged [Man measuring alligator]

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but which sentence is longer doesn't mean better so C is out what about D the

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second sentence is indeed more detailed than the first and that's totally

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important all those extra details give us a weight under understanding of what [Second sentence stamped important]

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Jamie bought so D is our answer and while it's well and good that Jamie [Janey pushing trolley in supermarket]

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bought whole milk brown and sourdough bread and Parmesan cheese but she wants

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to what ride the roller coaster she'll definitely need to buy two tickets two [Janey with trolley at rollercoaster]

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days

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