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PSAT 1.1 Reading Diagnostic. The main purpose of the first two paragraphs is to...what?
PSAT 2.2 Reading Diagnostic. What is the main rhetorical effect of this phrase in the second paragraph?
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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PSAT 1.5 Reading Diagnostic. Which sentence from the passage provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?
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nam for a nanometer Hey come on Thirty one seconds
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All right Thank you Jack london Which sentence from the
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passage provides the best evidence for the answer to the
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previous question and hear the potential answers One Okay easy
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enough We just need to locate sense that supports the
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answer to the previous question What previous question Good question
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Who's Quick refresher In the fourth paragraph the author checks
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his chronometer against the time pieces of other ships in
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order Tio what Oh yeah Well it's all coming back
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to us now as we determined it was essential to
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verify that his navigation tool was in proper working order
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and just you know colorful plastic replica from toys r
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us or something Right So now our question is which
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line from the passage backs that up We're looking over
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our answer joyce is our first thought is that we
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don't remember there being that many ellipses in the passage
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of course here the ellipses indicates that some stuff is
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being left out I either only given us the first
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and last few words of each line and it's up
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to us to do the dirty work All right you
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know problem We love getting dirty We never met a
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month ago We didn't like Well let's start with option
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a this he told me he had done Of course
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he had done nothing of the sort And he told
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me that the difference he had ascertained was only a
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small fraction of a second Okay So hear he's jumping
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on his captain again for not knowing his rear nether
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region from his elbow But he already knew that No
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big surprise This line does more to support the idea
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that the inmates are running the asylum or a ship
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than it does accentuate the importance of the proper tools
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All right what about b He told it to me
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with finally simulated joy and with words of praise for
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my splendid time keeper Well that he and question is
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captain who's So anything he might have to say with
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regard to the chronometer is effectiveness isn't gonna make any
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difference whatsoever to our narrator He's not going to make
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us next up is d captain willie The harbormaster gives
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the time to suva firing a gun Signal it twelve
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noon three times a week good to know that this
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would be a great answer if we were merely trying
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to get to know captain willie a little better and
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we're sure he's just lovely But when and how many
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times he fires his gun signal has nothing to do
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with the accuracy of the timepiece So fire away Captain
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will be over here Well then it has to be
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c right That is to say if i were sailing
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west in the nighttime in my position according to my
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dead reckoning from my afternoon chronometer sites it was shown
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to be seven miles off the island Why at that
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very moment i would be crashing on the reef Well
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fortunately yes this is the right one on the money
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See is our answer This line totally points out the
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importance of having your chronometer meet oring properly If it
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isn't well you could wind up dashed the bits on
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the reef And as much as our narrator may not
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mind something like that happening to his crewmates likely wouldn't 00:03:19.305 --> [endTime] want teo go down with the ship
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