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ACT Aspire English: Which Transition Word Should Open the Paragraph? 4 Views


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Choose the best alternative to the text below.
Like the movie Jaws


Transcript

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Okay Aspiring ct shmoop er's Here we go three of

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twelve like the movie jaws That's it That's our focus

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Here is top paragraph two and i won't let you

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do little skimming like the movie jaws One of the

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main reasons that great whites are so feared is their

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appearance Got all kinds of problems here So let's think

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about this The author brings up the movie jaws in

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the first paragraph because she says that it made people

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afraid of great white duh What do you expect when

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you call them mindless eating machines that lived to kill

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You know it was quinn Well the second paragraph discusses

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another reason why great whites or so terrifying in their

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appearance Yeah they're scary would not want to swipe right

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on tinder on one of these guys Only the last

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choice creates the relationship we need Jaws made people scared

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of great whites But aside from that well they're also

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scary because of their appearance Yeah so the answer is

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d and we've got to avoid the comparison words like

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and similar to which read to me that the sharks

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appearances like or similar to the movie jaws How can

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a shark look like a movie It might look like

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a shark in a movie but not like a movie

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If we say after the release of the movie jaws

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Well sounds like the great whites Appearance was only scary

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after the release of the movie which no thes guys

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have been scary looking for like hundreds of millions of

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years So the answer is d and it should read

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Aside from the movie jaws one of the main reasons

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that great whites are so feared is their appearance Okay

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that's it We're done We're going to go with stay 00:01:43.184 --> [endTime] very dry and moved to arizona

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