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This SAT Writing video is on urban planners. Find out if the government gives them the budget needed to carry out their plans.
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- 00:02
Okay Essay writing Shmoop er is the last one in
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the siri's here At least it would be Wait did
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there would be Although government funding issues may affect employment
- 00:14
in short term job prospects should actually improve over the
- 00:18
coming decade And boy this person's an optimist Whatever an
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- 00:21
area experiences economic downturn trained professionals air needed to effectively
- 00:24
manage the crisis Planners will be needed to help plan
- 00:27
oversee and carry out development projects that would be deferred
- 00:31
due to poor economic conditions Yeah combined with the increased
- 00:35
man's got together the sentence that opens the paragraph is
- 00:38
about the present and the near future It follows that
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the rest the paragraph will be about this fuzzy period
- 00:44
of time around and just ahead of the present The
- 00:47
present perfect tense have been refers to an action that
- 00:51
began in the past has continued to happen up until
- 00:54
now and may keep happening in the future because this
- 00:57
paragraph is predicting the future prospects of urban planners based
- 01:01
on the past and the present will the option that
- 01:04
straddles all three of these tenses is perfect Yes present
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perfect Right So we get rid of egg Would be
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is a conditional verb Conjugation that's used one predicting something
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about future That depends on the present The poor economic
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conditions are in the present though So if follows that
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if the projects were gonna be deferred because of money
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woes well it would've happened already right would have been
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take step back in time referring to something that didn't
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happen but that could have given some past conditions right
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Remember though that this senses about the fuzzy present will
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be takes a step forward in time which is also
- 01:39
in the wrong direction All right so that's it breathe
- 01:41
a sigh of relief go get a burger fries and
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a shake and then a nap and then come back
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and we'll abuse you with more sections going forward here 00:01:49.935 --> [endTime] Ah
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