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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 1.7 Writing Diagnostic. How would you change the underlined portion of the passage, if at all?
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by the circumference of the earth Oh how it wishes
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it could fit into the same para pans at war
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eighteen million years ago That's Separate story All right check
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out this passage Geo disease beginnings and lovable on science
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noon and develops inside the chamber earth and sand Since
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since you know comedians plato greek mathematician i swan I'm
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in trouble Cancer sauce that sign All right here we
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go How would you change the bolo Underline portion of
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the passage if it all are more And here the
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potential answers right No change is the more arm are
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all right There are certain phrases that make our brain
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and mouth hurt Just a sam are more falls into
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that category We're not just gonna cross out option a
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which suggests that no change is needed We're gonna launch
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that sucker into the stratosphere Hostile avista baby As for
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what this phrase should be well let's take a look
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at the sense in which it appears and then skim
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our answer choices so here's the sense lando's figure was
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a guest in our committees are a more conservative approximation
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based on scientific knowledge of time and hear the answer
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choices He claims that is a more is the way
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to go But the sentence states that plato's figure was
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and guess so How can we suddenly change tenses and
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say that our committee's figure is a guess Well it's
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not like our communities is any more alive today than
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plato To be honest neither of them are looking Too
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good lately so it ain't be these got problems too
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It can't be our more because plato in our communities
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each have just one figure If the sentence said plato
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in our communities guesses then we could certainly follow that
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up with our But since figure is singular we can't
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have a plural verb here though option d are incorrect
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choice I don't see how ugly that sounds alright would
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just leave see more here We don't use a verb
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it all but that's not a problem The sentence doesn't
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specifically mention that we're talking about our community's figure but
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it's implied because the way the seine the structure it's
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called gapping and it's used to avoid redundancy David letterman
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is a big fan so in our new sentence even
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though the words figure wass don't appear we can rest 00:02:12.293 --> [endTime] assured that they're still there at least in spirit
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