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ACT Aspire English: Where Should the Author Add a New Sentence?
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Suppose the author wants to add the following sentence to the passage: Artists still record music and people still buy music, but not in traditiona...

ACT Aspire English: Identifying Effective Closing Sentences
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Which of the following sentences, if added by the author to the end of Paragraph 3, would serve to close that paragraph most effectively?

ACT Aspire English: Which Sentence Closes a Paragraph Effectively?
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The author wants to add a sentence to help conclude Paragraph 4. Which sentence would be the most effective choice?

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ACT Aspire English: Maintaining Formal Style in a Transition 5 Views


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All right a c t Smokers almost done Eleven Twelve

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like we can see it finally moved on a paragraph

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five Let's screw all the way down there All right

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That debate over genetics versus environment or nature versus nurture

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will probably never be resolved because it is very difficult

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to separate the influence of genetics and environment on one's

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personality Like we can see Imagine that a child's parents

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are both very outgoing and the child is also outgoing

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terrible terrible Well The author makes point in the first

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sentence and then uses an example to help prove his

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point The first and second answer choices incorrectly implied that

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the author is about to state something obvious not a

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specific example that supports what he just said So get

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rid of a and b like the following example is

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tempting because it uses the word example But look closely

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It should be something like like the following example demonstrates

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or illustrates or active verbs like hey that's an answer

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Choice yeah to illustrate effectively connects the author's argument with

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the hypothetical example that he presents so it's sees what

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should read to illustrate this point Imagine that a child's

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parents are both very outgoing in the child's balls going

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okay that's it and were outgoing outside after we're done 00:01:30.264 --> [endTime] with this session

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