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SAT Reading: Supporting an Inference from Walden with Evidence 25 Views


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The "strongest answer" is a common question in readings like those on the SAT - the strongest is usually that which maps most directly to the theme of the entire work. #Live strong.


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okay people here's the question first which choice gives the strongest

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evidence where the answer to the previous question right so we're testing [text on screen]

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what can go backwards in like your now we're going the previous question

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because they're really testing us on this and it says it can't be most easily

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inferred that after several moves to well then he bud and the answer there

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was eight few simple meals okay and you've got a lines there we gave him to

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you right there for free on the screen so here we go it's the right answer

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yeah it's see Thoreau is giving an example of how one may live simply if [cookies baking, forest scape]

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he's anything like the honest guy he claims to be we're guessing he followed [man in woods]

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his own advice and ate fewer meals himself well ants at a picnic can eat

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pretty well but throw things their lives are too busy they might get a lot of [picnic]

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exercise but Thoreau doesn't want to model his life on them and he certainly [man with an ant head]

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doesn't suggest he wants an ant diet keeping the things you have to worry

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about down to the number you can count on your fingers doesn't mean you have to [text on screen]

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eat simply what if one of the ten things you do every day is mcduck low hollj all

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right so get rid of be unless Thoreau learned how to eat iron the cone about

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the railroads well certainly refers to commerce rather than diet so yeah the

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answer is C and we're sticking to proportion there and it's a good 20th

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century fiction work

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