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PSAT 1.1 Reading Diagnostic. The main purpose of the first two paragraphs is to...what?
PSAT 2.2 Reading Diagnostic. What is the main rhetorical effect of this phrase in the second paragraph?
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 1.11 Writing Diagnostic. How would you change the underlined portion, if at all?
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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop do as
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you were brought to you by con artists They're not
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to be trusted if you catch our grip Are checking
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this passage Scamming nuns No limit how connor swindled On
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scampi in a minor people know shame like what All
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right well how would you change The bolo underlined portion
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of the passage if it all in the brink and
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here the pencil and on all right we've been hearing
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this word brink all our lives What is a brink
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anyway We ever seen and bring Are there signs anywhere
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indicating when we're approaching one like on the highway Do
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bring skin a phone All right well the shortened sweet
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version a brink is simply the edge of an area
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of land right before there's a steep drop off In
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other words you really don't want to go over one
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unless you're an insane thrill seeker or have some kind
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of death wish or at least a parachute depends on
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the brink Now let's take a gander at the sentence
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from the passage in which brink appears there's no limit
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to how low con artists will go the swindle victims
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out of their money often targeting the elderly the terminally
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ill homeowners in the brink of losing their homes Okay
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well since we've already established what a brink is seems
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to be pretty diff a call to be in one
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in fact we're so clueless about how to even visualize
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such a thing that was going to show two seconds
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of blank screen and we're back So yeah no way
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this phrase is ok as is so we can eliminate
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option a but it the seat of the brake No
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they're not home Owners of the brink like the brink
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is some sort of ritzy homeowners associations of the is
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definitely out I haven't even about the ring about khun
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b used refer to something that is near something else
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but we're talking about homer's who are right on the
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edge of losing their homes on a safe viewing distance
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away from that break So the best answer here is
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be on the brink Those poor unsuspecting homeowners are right
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here in a ring on the edge of eviction gazing
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into the yawning abyss of homelessness Okay well we might
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be on the brink of becoming a beat poet but
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yeah we're gonna pull it back a scotch before things 00:02:18.083 --> [endTime] get ugly Whoa
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