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PSAT 1.7 Writing Diagnostic. How would you change the underlined portion of the passage, if at all?


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Hurry and here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by the circumference of the earth Oh how it wishes

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it could fit into the same para pans at war

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eighteen million years ago That's Separate story All right check

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out this passage Geo disease beginnings and lovable on science

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noon and develops inside the chamber earth and sand Since

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since you know comedians plato greek mathematician i swan I'm

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in trouble Cancer sauce that sign All right here we

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go How would you change the bolo Underline portion of

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the passage if it all are more And here the

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potential answers right No change is the more arm are

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all right There are certain phrases that make our brain

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and mouth hurt Just a sam are more falls into

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that category We're not just gonna cross out option a

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which suggests that no change is needed We're gonna launch

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that sucker into the stratosphere Hostile avista baby As for

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what this phrase should be well let's take a look

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at the sense in which it appears and then skim

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our answer choices so here's the sense lando's figure was

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a guest in our committees are a more conservative approximation

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based on scientific knowledge of time and hear the answer

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choices He claims that is a more is the way

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to go But the sentence states that plato's figure was

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and guess so How can we suddenly change tenses and

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say that our committee's figure is a guess Well it's

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not like our communities is any more alive today than

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plato To be honest neither of them are looking Too

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good lately so it ain't be these got problems too

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It can't be our more because plato in our communities

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each have just one figure If the sentence said plato

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in our communities guesses then we could certainly follow that

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up with our But since figure is singular we can't

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have a plural verb here though option d are incorrect

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choice I don't see how ugly that sounds alright would

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just leave see more here We don't use a verb

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it all but that's not a problem The sentence doesn't

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specifically mention that we're talking about our community's figure but

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it's implied because the way the seine the structure it's

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called gapping and it's used to avoid redundancy David letterman

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is a big fan so in our new sentence even

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though the words figure wass don't appear we can rest 00:02:12.293 --> [endTime] assured that they're still there at least in spirit

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