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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 1.4 Writing Diagnostic
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PSAT 1.4 Writing Diagnostic. Which choice most effectively combines the two sentences in the underlined portion?

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PSAT 1.5 Writing Diagnostic
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PSAT 1.5 Writing Diagnostic. How should the underlined portion be changed in the passage, if at all?

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PSAT 1.15 Writing Diagnostic. How would you change the underlined portion of the passage, if at all?

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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop douceur brought

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to you by restitution Paying back money has never been

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more relaxing All right chuckles passage on scamming nuns from

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the yeah All right doc He said no yeah look

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all right how have you changed the bolo underlying portion

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of the passage If it all additional money will be

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needed And here the french lancers All right well the

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underlying portion in this question looks really familiar to us

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Can't quite put our finger on it All right that's

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the note we'd send our parents want him on fact

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when we were away at college word for word pretty

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nuts But we're guessing that in this case it isn't

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a request for partying and or school supply related funds

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Here's the source sense from the passage When sotomayor told

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her additional money will be needed the nuns reached out

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to an even wider network Wow we didn't even know

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none for in the network Okay so this is basically

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a tense question Will was to would be or is

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those are four options Well will would only work if

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this way waas a direct quote I even sotomayor told

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her additional money will be needed The nuns reached out

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to an even wider network Once you put that bit

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in quotes you're telling the reader what sotomayor said word

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for word Unfortunately no one had a tape recorder going

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at the time so we're just looking at a rough

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summary of what he told sister family called reported speech

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and alas the word will won't work here so we

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have to change it Tio something is it be additional

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Money was to be needed It looks like hamlet's been

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here That guy loves taking to be into everything Yeah

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no it's overly wording and make zero grammatical sense So

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not to be is the answer What about the additional

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money is needed Thie is indicates present tense and the

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rest of this story is definitely all in the past

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tense It could be both simultaneously But now we're getting

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into quantum theory and wormholes And we're guessing you're not

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interested in string theory either We don't blame you Alright

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then It's gotta be c right Right It should be

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Additional money would be needed In the instance of reported

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speech Ah will becomes a wood transforming into the conditional

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Tense it's probably where that phrase comes from where there's

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a will there's a wood right possible that's Not correct 00:02:29.408 --> [endTime] I fell asleep in our aphorisms one on one

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