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Did Washington considered something appropriate or inappropriate in the SAT Writing passage? Watch this video to find out!


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All right see shmoop er's just to maurine this awesome

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list of questions analyzing washington's Well speech What was going

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on around it All right here we go He he

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is underlined and they do this to you on these

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tests you need like a magnifying glass to find out

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where they're talking about Well guess what it's a the

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end of the whole shmoop gigi here scrapping it with

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a plant that has requested salary online Regardless if you

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just look at goodwill gesture that he would never repeat

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washington urge members to pass whatever legislation he considered appropriate

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So that's washington considering something appropriate meaning i direct you

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to pass my laws Is that really what he meant

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While earlier in this paragraph we learned that washington didn't

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ask for much from congress he basically said to them

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do issue please It was kind of the beginning of

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the montessori movement That means that they the members of

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congress are the ones deeming laws appropriate or inappropriate not

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washington So this gives you a good example where one

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little word can turn dramatically the notions of megalomaniacal politicians

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from ahi two avai when left with just he the

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sentence implies that washington asked congress to pass laws that

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washington thought were appropriate However the first sense of the

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paragraph says washington ended up ditching his plan to give

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specific legislative orders though it'd be great if washington let

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all the rest of us passed laws well that's just

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not the case Here them is close but it's an

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object pronoun and this sentence needs a subject pronoun in

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place of e so they wins That actually was a

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sentence but you put quotes around They they word it

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winds get wins not they went all right that's a 00:01:39.76 --> [endTime] different question We're done

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