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Did Washington considered something appropriate or inappropriate in the SAT Writing passage? Watch this video to find out!
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All right see shmoop er's just to maurine this awesome
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list of questions analyzing washington's Well speech What was going
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on around it All right here we go He he
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is underlined and they do this to you on these
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tests you need like a magnifying glass to find out
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where they're talking about Well guess what it's a the
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end of the whole shmoop gigi here scrapping it with
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a plant that has requested salary online Regardless if you
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just look at goodwill gesture that he would never repeat
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washington urge members to pass whatever legislation he considered appropriate
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So that's washington considering something appropriate meaning i direct you
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to pass my laws Is that really what he meant
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While earlier in this paragraph we learned that washington didn't
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ask for much from congress he basically said to them
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do issue please It was kind of the beginning of
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the montessori movement That means that they the members of
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congress are the ones deeming laws appropriate or inappropriate not
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washington So this gives you a good example where one
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little word can turn dramatically the notions of megalomaniacal politicians
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from ahi two avai when left with just he the
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sentence implies that washington asked congress to pass laws that
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washington thought were appropriate However the first sense of the
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paragraph says washington ended up ditching his plan to give
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specific legislative orders though it'd be great if washington let
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all the rest of us passed laws well that's just
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not the case Here them is close but it's an
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object pronoun and this sentence needs a subject pronoun in
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place of e so they wins That actually was a
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sentence but you put quotes around They they word it
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winds get wins not they went all right that's a 00:01:39.76 --> [endTime] different question We're done
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