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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 1.3 Writing Diagnostic. To make the paragraph most logical, sentence 2 in the second paragraph should be placed...where?


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

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by car crashes ninety five percent of which are caused

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by rambunctious toddlers All right check out this passage for

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me feeling on more innovations of all right you were

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skimming unimportant press All right make the paragraph most logical

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Sentenced two in the second paragraph should be placed Teo

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where And here in potential answers All right So where

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does it go Uh four sentence too Well there it

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is Wandering around lost and alone Where do you belong

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little buddy Okay Lesson learned Don't ever approach a stray

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paragraph If you want to keep your fingers All right

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where would this thing makes the most sense Well we're

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looking for an answer other than in a cage of

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the county zoo Is it good where it is now

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Wealth Answer that We'll have to see where it is

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now Let's take a look at that paragraph again right

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there The first sense mentions that sometimes these video systems

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have issues recording footage or not properly installed or maintain

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Then the second one says it's important to resolve these

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problems don't make sense to us but wait if you

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keep reading don't worry it'll be over soon we noticed

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that there are yet more problems mentioned throughout paragraph that

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wouldn't make any sense to say these problems until all

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of those problems are rattled off So no it's not

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ok as is option a thanks for playing can't be

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be moved too before sentence Six because sensex is directly

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referencing since five and we don't want to break up

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those two besties the last thing you want to do

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is interrupt the paragraphs flow so option bees out of

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here is the right move it before sense one no

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that would make even less sense than leaving it where

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it is now because in that case these problems would

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reference nothing It seemed to be conjuring up some mystery

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problems out of thin air and we're going to assume

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that the author of this paragraph is not in the

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mystery business is sir arthur conan doyle probably doesn't have

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to worry about watching back All right well the answer

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is c it should be moved to the very end

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of the paragraph After sentence six the line summarizes all

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the possible issues with video system's covered in the rest

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of the paragraph So the end is a perfectly fitting

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place Tio stick it We're so glad sentenced to finally

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found a home Now the trick is to keep it 00:02:17.575 --> [endTime] there

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