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ACT Aspire English: It's All in the Past (Tense)
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ACT Aspire English: "Their" vs. "His or Her"
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ACT Aspire English: Eliminating Misplaced Modifiers
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All right Ten of twelve tts pirouz Here we go

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I was that accustomed Well that comes way down here

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in paragraph five We'll just came down there when my

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mom and i finally moved back to the u S

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I was that accustomed to the lifestyle in panama that

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i had a hard time adjusting to life in the

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us Okay there's a mess What this sentence is set

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up to convey that the author was so accustomed to

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a life in panama that it was hard for her

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to adjust to life back in the us again like

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a beetle song back in the ussr That's totally different

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All right well a simple example of that structure is

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something like this I'm so sick of studying for the

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aspire english assessment that i could throw my computer out

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of the window All right officials from up recommendation don't

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do it being in there All right so yeah see

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how we need the so in order to set up

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the second part of the statement the sow replaces that

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So only the last answer choice works here So it

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should be I was so accustomed to the lifestyle in

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panama that i had a hard time adjusting to life

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in the u S Got it You need that So

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don't forget your sewing kit or things get go

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