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TSI Writing: Which Word Best Replaces "Computers" in this Sentence? 4 Views


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Which word or phrase best replaces the underlined word in sentence 14?


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All right sy reading shmoop er's Last one in this

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siri's here it's Critical to understand how to properly dispose

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of and recycle electronic mp three players Boy was written

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a long time ago And place your ban if you

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agree to sell you know i'm practically seventy percent devices

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Second line love a block ginny in context Which word

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or phrase Best replaces the underlined word and sentenced fourteen

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Okay so we're going to replace this thing computers right

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here So the sentence let's find it in contact and

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i kind of skimmed down to it as we go

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here Computers are part of most people's daily lives But

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when it come time to upgrade Don't put your computers

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in the trash Okay Yeah i get it All right

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Well let's think about this redundancy is bad Probably because

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it's so repetitive says the same thing again and again

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and again and again Right We don't want to do

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that Be redundant So to eliminate redundancy we recommend a

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healthy dose of ward choice here you strong verbs descriptive

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adjectives and concrete Now nes to eliminate the use of

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the same word over and over and over and over

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again Right Well what we need is something that says

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old and busted without being repetitive or elementary right Outdated

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motherboard is definitely the way to go That's a kind

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of hip motherboard just so cool all right so that's

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c is the right answer and the loser bowl here

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Reason these things don't work well The word electronics is

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certainly a different word than computer but it's used a

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bunch of times already in the passage so it's not

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new or different computers Digital that goes without saying right

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But in the context of this sense it doesn't make

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any sense Grammatically simply adding an adjective won't reduce redundancies

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either Used computers Yeah well basically says the same thing

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is computer so that's it The answer is c outdated 00:01:46.359 --> [endTime] motherboard and from this section no way

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