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PSAT 1.1 Writing Diagnostic. How should the underlined portion be changed in the passage, if at all?

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PSAT 1.2 Writing Diagnostic. Which choice most effectively establishes the primary topic of paragraph 1?


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Hurry And here's your shmoop douceur brought to you by

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the national transportation safety board They strongly urge you not

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to raid the entire name of their organization While dr

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All right check out this passage Improve You filled him

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onboard Video she's right All right Which choice most effectively

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establishes the primary topic of paragraph want And here the

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potential and all right we've got a big long passage

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on our hands but for now we're only concerned with

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the first paragraph Good because we want nothing to do

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with second paragraph is we all know second place is

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just a first loser All right can you tell we

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were pushed Is a child anyway Let's re read the

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opener one more time and see if we can boil

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it down to its essence video systems can help monitor

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passenger behaviour in this wade negative actions such as bullying

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or theft Yeah we went ahead and fix that Monitor

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traffic surrounding the vehicle and assist in recording the observance

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of traffic laws into enhanced driver safety through feedback programs

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that correct potentially unsafe behaviors The national transportation safety board

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has also used on board video system's in its accident

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investigation There we go All right So kitch right off

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with the mention of onboard video systems and then launches

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into all the nifty stuff it khun d'oh it's courage

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bad behavior monitor traffic and hand safety and ate an

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accident Investigations sounds groovy but it's a bit all over

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the place How can we nail down a single primary

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topic like the question asked Well the easiest way is

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probably just to take the answer choices one by one

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so let's get her done Is it a video System's

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in vehicles are mostly used for recording the driver's adherence

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to safety laws Well safety laws are mentioned but it's

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just one of the benefits nowhere in the paragraph doesn't

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give special credit or the word Mostly though safety is

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great and all but often seems to be pushing some

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sort of agenda back off the line buddy What about

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c video systems for commercial vehicles were first introduced in

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the late nineties If that was the primary topic you'd

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think the word nineteen nineties would appear in there somewhere

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as it is there are no numbers or dates mentioned

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at all you know because we get a little dance

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in joy when we realized there was no math ball

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we're taking cm thick be Although video systems and commercial

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vehicles can make the vehicle's safer they mostly distract drivers

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Why so serious Option d is putting a negative spin

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on the video systems but his first paragraph is one

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hundred percent happy dappy it's about all the great stuff

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video systems Can do and doesn't focus one iota on

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any potential drawbacks but we're just gonna hum a happy

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tune and pretend we never even saw this answer Choice

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a lot Which leaves answer b commercial vehicles such a

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school buses and motor coaches are equipped with on board

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video systems for a variety of reasons gets that pretty

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much covers it without singling out any one thing or

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placing judgment on the video system This option goes uber

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vague and says and there's a lot of stuff they

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can do You should probably stop humming that Happy to

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now la la la you're starting to annoy the birds 00:03:11.298 --> [endTime] with your posse

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