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Texas EOC English I: 2.1 Editing
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There's a change that needs to be made in this question. But students today? They're pretty darn smart. And their brains will surely help them figu...

Texas EOC English 1: 3.1 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres
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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by camels What do you call a

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camel without a hump I'm free i'm free i'm free

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the camera We thought that was pretty good All right

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well maybe not quite at their cricket Weii done reading

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All right what is important about the multiple meanings of

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the word distinction in the first sentence of the second

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paragraph Distinction sting all right near the potential answers Okay

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All right Well a distinction is something that makes one

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thing different from another The sentence in which the word

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appears introduces a paragraph about how both masters and servants

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die of thirst in the desert when there's no water

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Well if there's nothing to drink it doesn't matter if

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you're rich or poor Kind of hard to buy some

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water when there's no quickie mart option a is way

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off base there's nothing in this answer choice that's marking

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a difference between two things is just saying one thing

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about one thing Clouds like this option barely even tried

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let's move on before this lack of motivation It's really

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depressing option b doesn't even come close So it does

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show that water has two distinctive sides to it Water

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khun save lives or take him depending on how much

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of it there is And what kind of mood it's

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in that day remember that i will However this essay

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doesn't say anything about water as a destructive force it's

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on ly the lack of water that's the problem flash

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flood might even be welcomed to the thirsty caravan While

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option d does talk about a distinction it's not a

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distinction that's present in the passage We only hear the

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author's opinion of the desert so as far as we

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know her opinion does represent reality we'll have to watch

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real housewives of the caravan teo find out if the

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author knows what she's talking about All right option c

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is the only one that gets the author's multiple meanings

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Besides being a noun that mark's differences distinction also can

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be used to show rank or honor as in he

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has earned several distinctions as a military strategist Well the

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author is telling us that in the case of dying

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of thirst there's no distinction difference between distinctions Rank rich

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people poor people everybody's dyna thirst in the desert desert

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doesn't care about class distinctions Nor does it accept visa 00:02:21.34 --> [endTime] or american express Oh buggers

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