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PSAT 1.9 Writing Narrative Walkthrough. Which choice best matches the tone in the rest of the passage?

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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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Brought to you by houston They have ninety nine problems

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but a technical fault in one onboard electrical system ain't

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one Wait All right check out this passage Gemini For

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a walk in space I'm walking on sunshine literally take

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a look at the underlined portion below which choice best

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matches the tone in the rest of the passage and

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here the potential answers aren't no change proclaimed well apparently

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this mr white guy saw a ghost at the same

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time he finished his space walk because we can't rightly

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think of any other instance in which someone would have

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a reason to shriek Either that or someone trampled the

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azaleas in his garden for the fourth time this week

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But yeah general astronauts especially aren't in the habit of

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shrieking that's kind of one of the first things they

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teach you at nasa dot com So we're going to

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need to replace this word with a better choice But

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what word should be be proclaimed Ah yes Here ye

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here Ye i has had a greatest adventure on yonder

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planet Now we can just see him holding open the

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scroll there so nah proclaimed is a bit too official

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for this occasion and doesn't really tell us anything about

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mr white's emotional state So we hereby proclaim option b

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wrong with next up D babbled Well sure if you

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were pumped up about something you might be in a

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babbling state of mine like the time santa brought you

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that ten speed bike you wanted and no one could

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get you to shut up about it But does it

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really match the tone of the rest of the passage

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Where has to be more of an emotional connection to

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the experience mr white just had rather than merely indicating

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that while he like to hear the sound of his

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own voice shrieking what else you got Option c gushed

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Well it says sort of the same thing is babbled

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but the word also tells us that he's uber happy

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or thrilled about something and wants to tell everyone all

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about it So like a pipe that's just sprung a

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leak Mr white is unable to keep all that bubbling

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us inside so see it is and we'll shut up 00:02:08.11 --> [endTime] now when we feel like we're babbling

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