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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 1.25 Writing Diagnostic. How would you change the underlined portion, if at all?

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Sorry and here's your smoke too Sure brought to you

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by the apparel industry The clothes make the man but

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apparently the man also makes the clothes All right Check

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out this passage right here in haiti to california How

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would you change the underlined portion if it all comprising

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and hear the potential answers All right okay so we

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need to take one word here and switch it out

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with another sort of like indie did at the beginning

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of raiders let's just make sure they're both the same

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weight We don't want an arrow through the head Yeah

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that's somebody else's Okay we definitely can't leave this sentence

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as is because the word comprising just plain doesn't make

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sense here The word refers to elements of a group

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so to say one of the largest employers comprising haiti

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when we're really saying that this group of employers is

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the country of haiti and that we looked them up

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unlinked in and we weren't able to endorse him so

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we're going to go ahead and assume that's incorrect next

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what if we said on haiti is option b suggests

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well that might work if haiti was an island all

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to itself As it turns out haiti is part of

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an island but shares the space with the dominican republic

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so on doesn't really work here Trust us any wishes

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It was all by itself it's been really peeved Ever

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since its neighbor called dibs on the bottom book through

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won't cut it either one of the largest employers through

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haiti That doesn't make sense unless all the employees have

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formed a long line from one coast to the other

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and are holding hands and singing kumbaya while they go

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over the prior year's profit report So what We're gonna

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disregard option c What has to be deep in its

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simple In fact it almost seems too simple But it's

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the only one that fits Yeah the employers are in

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haiti not on through around or above it So here's

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One of those cases where the simplest answer happens to

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be on the right one Now it's Just a race

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to see whether haiti or the dominican can be the

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first in line for ice cream way sends another war 00:01:52.437 --> [endTime] coming

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