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AP English Language and Composition 6.2 Passage Drill. The sentence beginning with "We Desire..." is an example of what type of syntax?

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Sorry And here's your smoked you sure brought to you

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by abraham lincoln and his gettysburg address You'd appreciate it

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If you'd stop forming is male there Let's take a

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look following passage right there huh Eric work of nature

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and here's Our question The sentence beginning with we desire

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is an example of what type of syntax And here

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the potential answers Five dollars work well while some might

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consider syntax the amount of money they leave in the

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collection plate at church it's actually the sequence in which

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words are put together to form sentences or in other

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words the rules that dictate sentence structure Let's take a

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look at a the authority a week Well according to

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the great big book of syntax the off storia we

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is a device an author or public speaker might use

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to try and bond with their audience by suggesting that

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they all share the same goal or belief Well in

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this passage the author seems to suggest that we the

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readers are just as dedicated about finding certain things Is

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he is except it's funny The author never actually asked

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us his readers if those were our desires or not

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truth be told we usually desire a cheeseburger and milkshake

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a little bit more than the conditions of character in

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an artist According to the explanation above the author did

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use the authority a week's Now that we know is

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either the only right answer or part of the writing

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of certain we can eliminate answer Eat b s about

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parallel construction Well again referring to the holy grail of

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syntax parallel construction is the repetition of the same pattern

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of words or phrases within a sentence or passage to

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show that two or more ideas have the same level

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of importance Great So what does that mean Well a

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quick and easy example would be the demands that toddler

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might make of his older brother or sister In fact

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the older sibling might want to add the parallel construction

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with the demand of our own But unfortunately not typically

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appreciative of such Anyway Getting back to the passing the

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author uses the phrase we desire three times and in

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each case is to give the same level of importance

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to a new concept the author is interested in finding

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so again according to a grand rulebook of syntax the

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author is using parallel construction now the beautiful thing about

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this discovery is that we now have two answers that

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are accurate which means we can safely assume that the

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correct answer is b lucky us Now we don't have

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to bother learning that unnatural is the repetition of a

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word or phrase at the beginning of success of klaus

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Nor do we Have to learn about how abraham lincoln

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used a naff ra in the gettysburg address Uh well

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i guess we just did some extra work It's Okay

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though we love extra worked here in months like four

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score and seven years ago we started this question Shmoop

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