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AP English Literature and Composition 1.5 Passage Drill 2
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AP English Literature and Composition 1.6 Passage Drill 7. What is the function of the parenthetical phrase in lines 42 through 43?

AP English Literature: Figuring Out the Tense
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The entire poem is framed in which of the following tenses?

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The entire poem is framed in which of the following tenses?


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No Okapi England people Another one for you Big fat

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calm We're gonna kind of cruise through it here and

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looking and just kind of winking at it first The

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entire poem is framed in which of the following tenses

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Alright frames So let's think about this Whenever we see

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the words would and could like What could the speaker

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abbreviate with Apostrophe D there Yeah we know we're dealing

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with a hypothetical mooed like a cow speaker tells us

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from the very beginning that she's looking at a house

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that robbers would like the look of So we know

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she's imagining a situation that could happen but it's not

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definitely happening We're not sure it's really or just kind

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of wait up So the right answer here his deal

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is conditional Just It depends you know like a diaper

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loser bowl here Well for this one we need to

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know the different kinds of tenses a writer might employ

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in writing But we're talking about what will be We're

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dealing with the future A passive voice isn't used in

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the poem like he was done too or something like

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that So get rid of B If we're in the

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here and now we're in the present like right now

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see And when it's not it because we're not here

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And now we're just kind of would've maybe Kudo should've

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And then finally if we're watching things unfold in the

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moment like the pitcher is winding up to throw the

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ball that's present progressive and that ain't it That ain't

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what we have in this little ditty here so that's 00:01:31.06 --> [endTime] not the right answer is D conditional

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