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If the author had chosen to use a word other than "horse" in the passage


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Okay Expiring readers more on the science of the brain

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Question seven of ten Here we go If the author

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had chosen to use a word other than horse in

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the passage than what well we know it's weird This

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is one of the few passengers we've seen in which

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the concept discussed throughout really isn't the point We guess

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the author it just had horses on the brain or

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something But he could have used any word and made

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exactly the same points Which eliminates the first three answers

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a b and c So the right answer here is

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d It would not have had any effect on the 00:00:39.787 --> [endTime] passage That's it in a go horses Yeah

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