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In this CAHSEE passage drill, figure out what the phrase "every leaf and grain" means. CAHSEE: Passage Drill 5, Problem 3

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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by maryland which was a lot less merry back in

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the slave days Hey Time All right in paragraph five

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the phrase every leaf in green suggests that colonel lloyd's

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operation what And here the potential answers way leaf and

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grain sounds like the name of an overpriced vegan restaurant

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us but we're guessing colonel lloyd wouldn't fit in at

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one of those it's not home in any place where

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the greens aren't boiled with a ham bone right We'll

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begin by nixing choice See according to douglas colonel lloyd's

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business is pretty massive This guy even has his own

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fleet of ships seriously So we're sure that nobody would

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ever call lloyds business small morally bankrupt maybe but not

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small And anyway the phrase leaf in grain has nothing

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to do with size So in this case size definitely

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does not matter Option d is a freebie Leaf ingrain

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clearly has nothing to do with any kind of accident

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Thank steve for making our lives that much easier Unalloyed

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had leaves and grains flying everywhere Well then choice It

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would be a great answer However colonel lloyd watches his

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property like a hot which is kind of unlucky for

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the slaves he owned Option b gets it right by

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correctly diagnosing the colonel's type A personality Douglas uses the

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phrase every grain and leaf to show that he keeps

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track of every speck of rory What douglas doesn't tell

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us is that the colonel's just is obsessive about his

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breakfast cereal One grain falls he's on the floor all 00:02:07.68 --> [endTime] morning with a magnifying glass

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