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PSAT 1.6 Writing Diagnostic 205 Views
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PSAT 1.6 Writing Diagnostic. How would you change the below underlined portion of the passage, if at all?
Transcript
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Lory and here's your shmoop too sure brought to you
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by gravity We don't know about you but it helps
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us feel grounded All right check out this passage Geo
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deasy's Beginnings on you understand Three fundamental The miracle shape
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greek era Thank you line You're softening now All right
Full Transcript
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that was kind of interesting How will you change the
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bolo Underline portion of a passage if it all And
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here the potential answers All right here we go Well
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they say home is where the heart is if you
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ask us Home is just where we're allowed to hang
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out as long as we're current on our mortgage payments
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Maybe that's just our cynical side talking here we've got
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the phrase his home and it's up to us to
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decide if it's hunky dorry to leave it that way
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Or if we should replace it with any of these
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fine specimens Let's check out full sentence While man's concern
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was initially limited to the immediate vicinity of his home
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it later expanded to the distance of markets or exchange
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places Well our subject is man not like hey there's
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a man crossing the street But hey man sure has
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come a long way in the last few million years
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So the mankind kind the question we have to ask
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ourselves is are we dealing with a singular or a
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plural word here Well you'd think it's plural it is
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after all referring toe all of humanity but man in
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this sense is actually singular Lumping together all the peeps
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on the planet as one joint entity Okay well if
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man is singular than the related pronoun also needs to
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be singular meaning it should be his not there or
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there's which knocks out both See andy from the running
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The only answer choice The worse is b which is
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going to be his homes But unless mankind has been
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summering on another planet for the last several millennia not
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told us about it but only has one home namely
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earth Oh yeah this sends his finances option A uh 00:01:58.348 --> [endTime] there's No place like home
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