AP English Language and Composition 6.2 Passage Drill
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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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is an example of what type of syntax And here
the potential answers Five dollars work well while some might
consider syntax the amount of money they leave in the
collection plate at church it's actually the sequence in which
words are put together to form sentences or in other
words the rules that dictate sentence structure Let's take a
look at a the authority a week Well according to
the great big book of syntax the off storia we
is a device an author or public speaker might use
to try and bond with their audience by suggesting that
they all share the same goal or belief Well in
this passage the author seems to suggest that we the
readers are just as dedicated about finding certain things Is
he is except it's funny The author never actually asked
us his readers if those were our desires or not
truth be told we usually desire a cheeseburger and milkshake
a little bit more than the conditions of character in
an artist According to the explanation above the author did
use the authority a week's Now that we know is
either the only right answer or part of the writing
of certain we can eliminate answer Eat b s about
parallel construction Well again referring to the holy grail of
syntax parallel construction is the repetition of the same pattern
of words or phrases within a sentence or passage to
show that two or more ideas have the same level
of importance Great So what does that mean Well a
quick and easy example would be the demands that toddler
might make of his older brother or sister In fact
the older sibling might want to add the parallel construction
with the demand of our own But unfortunately not typically
appreciative of such Anyway Getting back to the passing the
author uses the phrase we desire three times and in
each case is to give the same level of importance
to a new concept the author is interested in finding
so again according to a grand rulebook of syntax the
author is using parallel construction now the beautiful thing about
this discovery is that we now have two answers that
are accurate which means we can safely assume that the
correct answer is b lucky us Now we don't have
to bother learning that unnatural is the repetition of a
word or phrase at the beginning of success of klaus
Nor do we Have to learn about how abraham lincoln
used a naff ra in the gettysburg address Uh well
i guess we just did some extra work It's Okay
though we love extra worked here in months like four
score and seven years ago we started this question Shmoop