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PSAT 1.10 Writing Narrative Walkthrough. How would you change the underlined portion, if at all?
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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour
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Brought to you by wall street You know why that
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street always looks so pretty because the investors there are
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always trimming the hedge funds All right check out this
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passage excerpt from five year project or is safer and
Full Transcript
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stronger Fanjuls as the obama's dodd frank frank dodd frank
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And we're done All right How would you change the
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underlined portion below if it all with better tools to
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deal with crises caused by risky investment practices Wall street's
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Recklessness is being watched closely by financial regulators And here
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the potential answers All right Clearly you know living breathing
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wall street Okay So much for your recklessness there mr
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wall street in fact were even gonna take away your
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driver's license Have fun taking a bus everywhere okay So
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it's more about their investment practices Well that makes sense
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We don't remember ever running into them at the d
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m v If we take a gander at the answer
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choices we notice that well they all look pretty similar
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So dollars to doughnuts This is more of a grammar
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question than a comprehension one what's the best way to
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string all these words together so it makes the most
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sense Okay well where's option a coming from it says
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the sentences finance it but is it with better tools
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to deal with crisis caused by risky investment practices Wall
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street's recklessness is being watched closely by financial regulators Well
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look at how this sentence starts with better tools to
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blah blah blah so it doesn't start with a subject
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which means it's a safe bet that there are dangling
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modifiers at work here and yeah that opening clauses the
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modifier something or someone has better tools We just need
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to pin down who it is Well structured as it
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is the sentence seems to be implying that wall street
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is the one with better tools When in reality it's
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the financial regulators who are keeping tabs on wall street
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So option a is no bueno the sentence it is
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a change in option b does only one thing differently
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It turns a comma into what semicolon maybe a nifty
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party trick but not what's called for here The opening
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klaus isn't a complete thought So a semicolon is a
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no go And besides we've still got the same modifier
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Issue happening here so let's take be off our radar
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is d any better Negatory the sentence is still structured
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basically the same way Only now wall street is watching
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financial regulators recklessly How would that work on wall street
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watching regulators while doing a handstand on the hood of
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a moving vehicle Well this one makes less sense than
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a roasted pig in a vegan restaurant so weak and
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cross it off Our list sees the one we want
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with better tools to deal with crises caused by risky
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investment practices Financial regulators are watching wall street's recklessness closely
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it's the financial regulators who are watching wall street's recklessness
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So this option has accurately modified our modifier By the
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way if you ever visit the city of boston make
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sure you're on the lookout for any dangling modifiers hanging
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out in the bad parts of town People there khun
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tell you tales about the boston dangler and no it's 00:03:03.113 --> [endTime] not as dirty as it sounds
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