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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 1.25 Writing Diagnostic. How would you change the underlined portion, if at all?
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Sorry and here's your smoke too Sure brought to you
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by the apparel industry The clothes make the man but
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apparently the man also makes the clothes All right Check
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out this passage right here in haiti to california How
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would you change the underlined portion if it all comprising
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and hear the potential answers All right okay so we
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need to take one word here and switch it out
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with another sort of like indie did at the beginning
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of raiders let's just make sure they're both the same
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weight We don't want an arrow through the head Yeah
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that's somebody else's Okay we definitely can't leave this sentence
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as is because the word comprising just plain doesn't make
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sense here The word refers to elements of a group
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so to say one of the largest employers comprising haiti
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when we're really saying that this group of employers is
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the country of haiti and that we looked them up
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unlinked in and we weren't able to endorse him so
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we're going to go ahead and assume that's incorrect next
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what if we said on haiti is option b suggests
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well that might work if haiti was an island all
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to itself As it turns out haiti is part of
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an island but shares the space with the dominican republic
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so on doesn't really work here Trust us any wishes
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It was all by itself it's been really peeved Ever
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since its neighbor called dibs on the bottom book through
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won't cut it either one of the largest employers through
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haiti That doesn't make sense unless all the employees have
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formed a long line from one coast to the other
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and are holding hands and singing kumbaya while they go
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over the prior year's profit report So what We're gonna
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disregard option c What has to be deep in its
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simple In fact it almost seems too simple But it's
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the only one that fits Yeah the employers are in
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haiti not on through around or above it So here's
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One of those cases where the simplest answer happens to
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be on the right one Now it's Just a race
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to see whether haiti or the dominican can be the
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first in line for ice cream way sends another war 00:01:52.437 --> [endTime] coming
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