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Texas EOC English I: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts Drill 3, Problem 2
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Texas EOC English 2: Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts Drill 2, Problem 3
- Texas EOC / Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts
- Texas EOC English I / Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts
- Texas EOC / Texas EOC English I
- Test Prep / Texas EOC
- Test Prep / Texas EOC
- Texas EOC II / Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts
- Texas EOC English II / Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour Brought to you by the environmental protection agency You
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should see the one The environmental destruction agency said Not
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a good smoking Sure That day All right check the
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following passage You know basic information about estuaries times we
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read this fresh water and make your transition very incomparably
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son Open one understanding beaches All right The purpose of
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the passengers a hole is tio What other than confuse
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you And here the potential answers are defining providing defining
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our offering You could describe tio All right Well the
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title of the passages basic information about estuaries which tells
- 00:45
us that our passage will include a description of the
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key features of estuaries shocking and wait actually that's it
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which means we can eliminate eh yes estuaries air defined
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But the passage doesn't specifically say that anybody auto protect
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him So even though we might infer that the epa
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might be trying teo well protect the environment this particular
- 01:06
passage isn't blatantly going for that answer B isn't right
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either Provide specific example of estuaries in their characteristics huh
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Well different types of estuaries like salt marshes are listed
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In the passage way don't hear anything about their characteristics
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though which faster did be read option d is off
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track to offering an alternative perspective on estuarine environment Well
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this passage is purely informational so it can't really be
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offering an alternative perspective unless there's some other perspective that
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we don't know about Maybe others think that estuaries aren't
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really environments where salt water mixes with fresh What do
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you think Maybe others think escalators are places where salt
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water mixes with some taffy Yeah whatever It doesn't matter
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what others think we gotta focus on this passage in
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this one alone choice He gets it right to find
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and described the key features of estuaries There we go
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like we said this article is titled basic information about
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estuaries and it delivers what it promises Unlike that slack
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pizza guy in our hood you know you should show 00:02:09.27 --> [endTime] up on time
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