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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 1.5 Writing Diagnostic. How should the underlined portion be changed in the passage, if at all?
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flash All right Taking the passage yet again We've seen
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this a million times Mmm So we're just going to
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skim it Skim skim it and yeah good luck with
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all that let's Get to the question How should the
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underlined portion be changed in the passage if at all
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Each of their newly purchased systems provide visibility and hear
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the potential answers are no change changes Well get out
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your red pens everyone It's time to play teacher Suppose
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this passage was an essay submitted to you by a
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student and now you get to mark up their paper
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and bring down their grade doesn't just make you feel
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good all over it's The little things in life so
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far today isn't correct and some changes do in fact
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need to be made well what is wrong with this
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sentence It sounds sort of ok but let's break down
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with its actually saying they should make sure each of
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their newly purchased systems provide visibility of the driver as
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well As of each occupant seeding location so it's not
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all of the individual systems we're talking about here it's
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each system all by its lonesome individual In other words
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our subject is singular but we're lacking subject verb agreement
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painted when they fight So yeah while we might say
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that systems provide because systems is plural way would say
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that each system provides uh now there's some agreement an
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option b they're newly purchased systems provides visibility We've got
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a plural subject in a singular verb and then see
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we can't say each of their system more specifically trying
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get laughed out of the room But d hits the
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sweet spot Each of their newly purchased systems provides visibility
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We've got a singular subject each and a singular verb
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provides Hence the subject verb agreement we were looking for
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in the first place Oh goody no more infighting now 00:02:06.25 --> [endTime] on out fighting on what
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