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PSAT 1.10 Writing Narrative Walkthrough. How would you change the underlined portion, if at all?
PSAT 1.2 Writing Diagnostic. Which choice most effectively establishes the primary topic of paragraph 1?
PSAT 1.23 Writing Diagnostic. Which choice most effectively combines the two sentences at the underlined portion?
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PSAT 1.2 Writing Diagnostic. Which choice most effectively establishes the primary topic of paragraph 1?
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Hurry And here's your shmoop douceur brought to you by
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the national transportation safety board They strongly urge you not
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to raid the entire name of their organization While dr
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All right check out this passage Improve You filled him
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onboard Video she's right All right Which choice most effectively
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establishes the primary topic of paragraph want And here the
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potential and all right we've got a big long passage
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on our hands but for now we're only concerned with
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the first paragraph Good because we want nothing to do
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with second paragraph is we all know second place is
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just a first loser All right can you tell we
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were pushed Is a child anyway Let's re read the
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opener one more time and see if we can boil
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it down to its essence video systems can help monitor
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passenger behaviour in this wade negative actions such as bullying
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or theft Yeah we went ahead and fix that Monitor
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traffic surrounding the vehicle and assist in recording the observance
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of traffic laws into enhanced driver safety through feedback programs
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that correct potentially unsafe behaviors The national transportation safety board
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has also used on board video system's in its accident
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investigation There we go All right So kitch right off
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with the mention of onboard video systems and then launches
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into all the nifty stuff it khun d'oh it's courage
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bad behavior monitor traffic and hand safety and ate an
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accident Investigations sounds groovy but it's a bit all over
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the place How can we nail down a single primary
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topic like the question asked Well the easiest way is
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probably just to take the answer choices one by one
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so let's get her done Is it a video System's
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in vehicles are mostly used for recording the driver's adherence
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to safety laws Well safety laws are mentioned but it's
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just one of the benefits nowhere in the paragraph doesn't
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give special credit or the word Mostly though safety is
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great and all but often seems to be pushing some
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sort of agenda back off the line buddy What about
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c video systems for commercial vehicles were first introduced in
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the late nineties If that was the primary topic you'd
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think the word nineteen nineties would appear in there somewhere
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as it is there are no numbers or dates mentioned
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at all you know because we get a little dance
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in joy when we realized there was no math ball
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we're taking cm thick be Although video systems and commercial
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vehicles can make the vehicle's safer they mostly distract drivers
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Why so serious Option d is putting a negative spin
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on the video systems but his first paragraph is one
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hundred percent happy dappy it's about all the great stuff
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video systems Can do and doesn't focus one iota on
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any potential drawbacks but we're just gonna hum a happy
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tune and pretend we never even saw this answer Choice
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a lot Which leaves answer b commercial vehicles such a
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school buses and motor coaches are equipped with on board
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video systems for a variety of reasons gets that pretty
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much covers it without singling out any one thing or
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placing judgment on the video system This option goes uber
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vague and says and there's a lot of stuff they
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can do You should probably stop humming that Happy to
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now la la la you're starting to annoy the birds 00:03:11.298 --> [endTime] with your posse
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