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ACT Aspire Reading: Defining "A Solitude" in Context
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As it is used in the passage, the phrase "a solitude" means:

ACT Aspire Reading: How Does the Author Build Suspense?
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In Lucy's conversation with Mr. Rayburn, the author builds suspense by:

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When the narrator says that she is observing a "walking funeral", she most likely means that:

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ACT Aspire Reading: Identifying the Main Point of a Specific Paragraph 6 Views


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What is the main purpose of the second paragraph?


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Okay Ccs buying reading shmoop er's Here we go five

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of ten What is the main purpose of the second

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paragraph The main idea is that amphibians are gross and

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they exhibit quote highly specialized adaptations to the harsh glacier

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climate Second paragraph supports the main idea of the passage

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by giving an example of an amphibian adaptation namely internal

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fertilisation The paragraphs not a counter example of the argument

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given in the first paragraph mostly because well there isn't

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an argument in the first paragraph So get rid of

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beak Many ideas don't always need to be arguments Sometimes

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their statements of fact It's also not a transition between

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one frog species Do another skipper to see there's no

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frogger jumping action happening Your third paragraph still about the

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tailed frog The second paragraph also doesn't provide summary of

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the adaptation of one species right So get rid of

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deep paragraph discusses the tailed frog adaptations that has helped

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with mating and the next paragraph goes into further detail

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The second paragraph is not a summary of all cool

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evolutionary transformations of the tailed frog in one paragraph It's

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just kind of linking through so that's it It's an

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example It's a the end

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