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- 00:04
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by beast
- 00:06
boy, all he has to do is meet beauty girl and they've got themselves a new [Beast Boy meets Beauty Girl]
- 00:10
disney musical all right check out this passage beast boy's my favorite teen
- 00:15
titan because he can turn into any animal he wants whenever he wants. He's
- 00:19
always changing into something different like an elephant, a bee, or even a
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- 00:22
dinosaur. Yep Beast Boy changes so frequently that it makes the show
- 00:26
interesting to watch well based on context clues what do you think the word
- 00:31
frequently means and here the potential answers...[mumbling] well alright so it
- 00:37
seems beast boy is a teen titan not the next disney hero, ah well shame..[Beast boy dressed in armor on a metal horse]
- 00:42
we always love seeing those animated shorts.. okay so we're told that beast boy can
- 00:45
turn into any animal he wants whenever he wants cool trick. That'd be really handy
- 00:49
anytime he wants to reach something on a high shelf so does he change badly [Beast boy transforms into a giraffe to reach the cookies]
- 00:53
rarely, often, or well. Let's look at some of our other context clues we're told he [magnifying glass searching a paragraph]
- 00:59
can turn into other animals but it's never stated how good he is at making
- 01:03
these transformations like maybe when he decides to turn into a lion he still [beast boy transforms into a green lion]
- 01:07
bleats like his a goat, we really have no idea and that'd be kind of funny though.. so
- 01:11
because the quality of this skill isn't really explained we have no idea if he [A green cow appears]
- 01:15
changes either badly or well meaning we can get rid of options A and D right away
- 01:19
the only question then is whether he changes rarely or often well the passage
- 01:24
tells us that the rate at which he changes makes the show interesting to
- 01:28
watch okay what would be so interesting about someone who only changes into an [Boy watching a show with Beast Boy]
- 01:32
animal once every four episodes I'm pretty sure that show gets cancelled.
- 01:37
Na! frequently must mean often and indeed it does option C is the one we've
- 01:42
been looking for here and ah finding the right answer never fails to make us feel [Beast boy and Beauty girl dancing in a grand hall]
- 01:45
good now that's a tale as old as time
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