SAT Writing and Language Drill 3.11 Effective Language Use
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| Effective Language Use | Style and Tone |
| Expression of Ideas | Effective Language Use |
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| SAT Writing | Expression of Ideas |
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performance increasing its cooling cost by a lot All right
people Well the essay isn't conversational One might even say
it's ah a bit dry work which morning yeah of
the choices listed the driest or most formal way to
say ah lot is significantly as is the senses grammatically
correct but the tone is suddenly ah lot or should
we say significantly more conversational that's why a doesn't work
you like comes out informally out of nowhere like your
debutante ball and you smack someone on the back and
tell a dirty joke right You don't do that well
the word significantly gets the tone back on track but
then supersizing brings the sentence right back to a conversational
level that makes ah lot sound sophisticated Get rid of
that like super sizing totally is the wrong tone plus
totally can also mean completely which confuses the meaning of
the whole sense How do you completely increase something it's
like super unique We like totally don't know you know
all right Finally we're done We'll see you in the 00:01:18.422 --> [endTime] next section we hope if you're away lo way