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PSAT 1.4 Writing Diagnostic. Which choice most effectively combines the two sentences in the underlined portion?
PSAT 1.5 Writing Diagnostic. How should the underlined portion be changed in the passage, if at all?
PSAT 1.3 Writing Diagnostic. To make the paragraph most logical, sentence 2 in the second paragraph should be placed...where?
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PSAT 1.10 Writing Diagnostic. How would you change the below underlined portion of the passage, if at all?
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more great name struck cancer All right How would you
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change the bolo underlying portion of the passage if it
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all being that's it That one word All right near
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the potential answers is was are you in nineteen forty
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three The existential philosopher jean paul sartre wrote a book
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called being and nothingness You ever read it Because what's
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the point of it really For this question we're faced
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with only one of the two notions in that title
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being thank goodness because it's way easier to conceptualize that
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nothingness We're still trying to wrap our heads around the
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idea of something this but oh that's separate story So
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in the passage is it right for us to use
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the word being Or are we better off using is
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wass or are as suggested by the answer choices Well
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what we have on our hands here people is a
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tense issue which would explain why no one in the
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room who's making eye contact Paragraph is word appears in
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is written in the present tense There's an is here
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The word lies there all present tense So to keep
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consistent and have this word jive with everything else it
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also needs to be in the present tense while being
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doesn't quite fit The bill it's in what's called the
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present progressive tense which while it has the word present
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in there is something quite different See wass is in
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the past tense so that one's definitely out and e
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r is a plural herb which ain't gonna work The
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subject here is different which is singular So it needs
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a singular verb It can ride off into the sunset
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with the only viable option And his b is once
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we plug that in it reads science lies three degrees
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thirty minutes east of the meridian of alexander agha And
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the difference of latitude between alexandria and science is seven
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degrees five minutes rather than seven degrees twelve minutes The
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number veritas anees had calculated present tense singular sounds lovely
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Perfect Our work here is done as young paul shots
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Would say Who cares what he would say We're all 00:02:19.36 --> [endTime] going to die someday regardless
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