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PSAT 1.5 Reading Diagnostic
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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?

PSAT 2.1 Reading Diagnostic
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PSAT 2.1 Reading Diagnostic. President Kennedy refers to the United Nations in the first paragraph primarily to...what?

PSAT 2.2 Reading Diagnostic
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PSAT 2.2 Reading Diagnostic. What is the main rhetorical effect of this phrase in the second paragraph?

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TSI Reading: Defining "Edition" in Context 1 Views


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Which of the following phrases best represents the tone of the passage?

(A)Four hundred gallons
(B)Is it any wonder
(C)conservation through innovation
(D)high-efficiency dishwashers


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Okay see reading shoppers Got another fine paragraph for you

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and let you skip to the question Here what's the

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meaning of the word addition as it's used in the

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passage What All right What does it mean Let's Just

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skin Because the answer don't mean much to us right

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now Mary shelley wrote frankenstein and summer eighteen sixteen amazingly

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young age of eighteen The inspiration came her while she

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was vacationing with some for writer friends A ghost story

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contest suggests and she was inspired to write what has

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become one of the most famous horse stories in english

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lit or story centered on what happens when science and

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mortality collide In eighteen eighteen she finished the story and

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published it is ah horror novel in eighteen thirty one's

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republished with major edits even though that publication is the

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addition The majority people read today It's worth reading eighteen

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eighteen edition because it's written in the author's original words

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Okay moving on all right Answers what's the meaning of

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the word edition Well in the last light of the

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pastor's the other refers to two editions of shelly's working

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last one right there the one that underwent major edits

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and shelley's original unedited edition In other words a dish

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in refers to a certain version or printed copy of

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frankenstein Here got it in the loser bowl Well correcting

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the spelling and grammar works also known as added ting

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edition and supplementary pieces are in addition to an existing

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piece Given editions context in the passage it wouldn't make

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sense for it to refer to an appraisal or determination

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of its value So the answer is it's c that's

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