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PSAT 1.10 Writing Diagnostic. How would you change the below underlined portion of the passage, if at all?

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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop douceur brought

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to you by meridian lines a little bo tat's should

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clear those things right up Check out this passes gotz

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We've read now a billion times We're just going to

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skim it Picture number the greek names or number citation

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more great name struck cancer All right How would you

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change the bolo underlying portion of the passage if it

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all being that's it That one word All right near

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the potential answers is was are you in nineteen forty

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three The existential philosopher jean paul sartre wrote a book

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called being and nothingness You ever read it Because what's

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the point of it really For this question we're faced

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with only one of the two notions in that title

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being thank goodness because it's way easier to conceptualize that

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nothingness We're still trying to wrap our heads around the

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idea of something this but oh that's separate story So

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in the passage is it right for us to use

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the word being Or are we better off using is

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wass or are as suggested by the answer choices Well

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what we have on our hands here people is a

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tense issue which would explain why no one in the

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room who's making eye contact Paragraph is word appears in

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is written in the present tense There's an is here

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The word lies there all present tense So to keep

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consistent and have this word jive with everything else it

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also needs to be in the present tense while being

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doesn't quite fit The bill it's in what's called the

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present progressive tense which while it has the word present

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in there is something quite different See wass is in

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the past tense so that one's definitely out and e

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r is a plural herb which ain't gonna work The

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subject here is different which is singular So it needs

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a singular verb It can ride off into the sunset

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with the only viable option And his b is once

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we plug that in it reads science lies three degrees

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thirty minutes east of the meridian of alexander agha And

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the difference of latitude between alexandria and science is seven

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degrees five minutes rather than seven degrees twelve minutes The

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number veritas anees had calculated present tense singular sounds lovely

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Perfect Our work here is done as young paul shots

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Would say Who cares what he would say We're all 00:02:19.36 --> [endTime] going to die someday regardless

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