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In this SAT Writing video a tired chief executive returns to his quarters to enjoy a peaceful dinner alone. Should we keep that lonely sentence?


Transcript

00:02

All right smokers This is it Last one of the

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washingtonian siri's the author is considering adding the following sense

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after the last sense of the show The sense So

00:09

following the address in a church service the tiger chief

00:11

executive returns to his quarters to enjoy a peaceful dinner

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alone All right well what do you think she would

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keep it It kind of adds a lot there's something

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you know kind of hauntingly echoey ish about it right

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And if you were hungry while reading this essay well

00:25

you probably noticed that washington was eating breakfast at the

00:28

beginning and in the middle he was eating lunch here's

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dinner neatly placed in a sentence that continues not only

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with the meals pattern but also with the solitude theme

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So it adds a lot and sure it's nice to

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know what washington did next but what he did leading

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you know it isn't actually all that important per se

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it's more a style choice here than a substance One

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the sentence before c is about congress in this piece

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is about washington so it's more appropriate toe end with

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a sentence That's just about him eating in solitude have

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been recurring theme so well This sentence doesn't introduce anything

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that we haven't seen before anyway so yeah so we're

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keeping it and echoes the mentions of breakfast and lunch 00:01:09.41 --> [endTime] all right

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