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ACT Aspire English: Putting Sentences in a Logical Order
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Which of the following would be the most logical order of sentences in Paragraph 2?

Revising the Order of Sentences
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Which of the following would be the most logical order of sentences in Paragraph 4?

ACT Aspire English: Where Should the Author Add a New Sentence?
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Suppose the author wants to add the following sentence to the passage: Artists still record music and people still buy music, but not in traditiona...

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ACT Aspire English: Keeping Transitions Smooth 3 Views


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All right spyros almost done Eleven and twelve Even though

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that's our focus here Let's go down paragraph five and

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find it When my mom and i finally moved back

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to us i was so accustomed lifestyle in panama that

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our time just live in the us everything seem to

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move so fast and people didn't seem to have time

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to enjoy the little things Even though we left panama

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i will always carry with me the simple joys i

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learned to appreciate there All right shmoop Well to answer

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this question we need to think about the logic of

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the paragraph and this particular sentence The author's saying that

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she had a hard time adjusting to life in the

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u S After living in panama She also says that

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one of the most important lesson she learned was to

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appreciate the simple things in life Well the senses set

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up correctly Teo say that even though she left panama

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she'll carry that lesson with her Another word that would

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work here is although yeah it doesn't make sense logically

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to say that she will carry the experience with her

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because she left animals prefer to be and nevertheless see

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is used to contradict something previously stated which doesn't work

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here right Well finally though it makes logical sense to

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say after we left panama i will always carry fifty

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Doesn't really fully convey the contradiction that even though does

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in a day So we don't change anything just even

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though we left panama Gotta gotta That's it It's a

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