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CAHSEE ELA 1.1 Writing Strategies. Which of the following sentences, if placed before sentence 1, would be the most effective introductory sentence?
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Hurry and here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by introductory sentences We guess saying anything else would be
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redundant Wait If you need to look over the passage
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again press pause and give it a skin All right
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which of the following sentences If placed before sentence one
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would be the most effective introductory sentence and hear the
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pendulum all right a good introductory sentence can be hard
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to him down no matter how good we are at
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word wrestling The tricky thing is that introductory sentences typically
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don't come right out and shout the main point of
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the piece but they also can't seem totally random or
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off topic Let's start by taking a look a choice
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D yeah this passage does talk about fairy tales but
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the way this sentences phrase makes it sound like we're
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about to get all the details on how fairy tales
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shape the narrator's childhood Okay now let's check out choices
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a and see which both pretty much say the same
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thing The trouble is that they also said the same
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thing as the current first sentence of the passage For
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example listen how we're done it it would sound if
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we kicked the passage off with choice See magic was
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so easy to believe in when i was a kid
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everything seemed way more magical when i was a kid
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Repetitive right while the same thing goes for choice eh
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So we'll knock those options out at the same time
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All right so we have whittled our options down to
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choice B it's The best answer because it mentions belief
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and hints at nostalgia which becomes the major thread running
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through the essay Looks like we found a winner Choice
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B
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