ACT Aspire English: Choosing the Strongest Conjunction
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a birmingham jail in germany And heroes same friend that
i'm playing the silver's here Just want ten college An
african merriment Certainly It's reeling from that flight Your admission
to the university of mississippi in nineteen sixty one Despite
that the supreme court had in nineteen fifty four found
racial segregation in schools to be unconstitutional In practice most
schools in the south were still segregated Terrible sentence terrible
era to all right Well let's think about this The
two parts of this sense are in opposition to one
another writes The supreme court had ruled that segregation was
unconstitutional years earlier but education was still very much segregated
in practice that people were not following the law for
better or worse And yes you can match that to
immigration and some of the other thing where there's a
division there So we can tell that this is going
to be one of those passages that tears us down
before building us back up anyway despite that is in
a is lacking something a big thing despite the fact
that well that would have worked But we're missing the
pb and j The fact in that particular word sandwich
however as in see right there usually suggests that the
sense is a contradiction to a previous one which we
don't have here While because indeed makes it sound as
though the first part of the sentence explains the second
part which is clearly not the case So although is
the right answer is b although is the only answer
that creates the right relationship between the two parts of
the sentence So it would read Although the supreme court
had in nineteen fifty four found racial segregation in schools
to be unconstitutional In practice most schools in the south
were still segregated so that's it It's b and we're 00:02:13.016 --> [endTime] done