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ACT Aspire English: What's the Best Place to Add a New Sentence? 1 Views


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The author would like to add the following sentence to the passage. "Whatever the reasons, the viewing public continues to enjoy watching contestants vote each other out of "tribes," participate in challenges, and form alliances to eliminate other contestants." Where would be the most logical place for the author to add the new sentence?


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All right A c t s firing shmoop er's twelve

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twelve last one right here in It's a broad question

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for you The author would like to add the following

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sentence to the passage right here This thing Whatever the

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reasons the viewing public continues to enjoy watching contestants vote

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each other out of tribes participate in challenges and form

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alliances to eliminate other contestants Alright where would be the

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most logical place for the author too Add this new

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city Planning on leaving county marcus on a during any

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of your friends robs us from surviving Sherman Let's write

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me a movie not a major networks like pbs I'm

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just going to survive the last minute for us Well

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think about it Sounds pretty conclusory to me like very

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much an ending kind of thing right Well the phrase

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whatever the reason tells us that the new sentence must

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be following up on information about why survivors so popular

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right paragraph one a introduces the topic reality survival skills

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shows while paragraph three focuses on other types of survival

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skills shows and not survivor Paragraph two does discuss survivor

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and its popularity Well the author hasn't presented in speculation

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About why survivor is so popular Right He does this

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in paragraph four which is why it makes sense But

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the new sentence there the very very end So the

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answer is c And guess what You've survived there We're

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still going to vote you off The island owners are

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keeping it real right on to the next set The 00:01:36.994 --> [endTime] shmoop has spoken

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