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What's the whole essay about? How does time control or matter to the essay as a whole?


Transcript

00:02

all right people we're starting the SAT

00:05

writing section of our SAT prep [Woman writing on school desk]

00:08

lucky you yeah here we go so we got 11

00:11

of these bad boys and for each question

00:13

you're gonna choose the answer that best

00:15

improves the writing quality or makes

00:17

the writing adhere to standard written

00:19

English conventions no Klingon from you

00:23

Bob in the back there some questions

00:25

include a no change choice and that's

00:27

just fine if it's perfect the way it is

00:29

so let's start by just kind of skimming

00:31

this thing so we kind of get a sense for

00:35

what they're doing here... [mumbling sped up]

00:41

all right we're just gonna skip down to

00:43

the question....

00:44

Advanced composites

00:48

such as carbon fiber are three times as

00:50

strong in twice as light as the lightest

00:52

metals currently they're used for

00:54

expensive applications like satellites [Man opens car door]

00:56

and luxury cars the first paragraph sets

00:59

up the rest of the essay which is about

01:00

a new Institute working on advanced

01:02

composite whoo-hoo we're gonna need some

01:05

context before we can care about these [Man browsing through book shelf]

01:07

materials however the sentence that

01:09

begins with currently tells us what's

01:12

going on now right now in the world of

01:14

advanced composites but be there read

01:17

suggest a contrast there's no contrast

01:19

nevertheless and though also implies

01:21

some kind of opposition and it's not [Although and nevertheless wrestling]

01:23

really like they're in that kind of

01:24

fragmented and we really don't like

01:26

fragments so that's it it looks like

01:29

it's no change and yes the answer is a

01:31

no change sort of like when you buy a

01:34

hot dog from a street vendor and [5 dollar bill switching hands]

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