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John Trumbull's painting. Declaration of Independenc. Continental Congress. So much patriotism in this SAT Writing video.


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Okay s eighty shmoop er's Here we go Three of

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eleven underlying writing right here painting that netted approximately one

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hundred thirty one inches that the artists all right that

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sounds kind of awkward So let's see it's even find

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it here First of all this is really good for

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the team is an enlarged version of a smaller painting

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that measured approximately one morning just as the artist or

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the one about the doctor to get a country well

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the dimensions of the painting or a nice detail kind

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of like if we really care but they don't alter

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the meaning of the sentence They're part of a non

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restrictive phrase something that can be taken out without changing

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the meaning of the sentence Non restrictor phrases often begin

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with which and our set off with commas Those comets

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also give the sense the natural pauses it needs making

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for a smoother reed and a chance to take a

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much needed breath and otherwise exhaustingly long sentence All right

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well as written the lack of commas a suggest that

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this is a restrictive phrase but it's not without the

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information following that we'd be left with You'd isn't enlarged

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Version of a smaller painting that the artist had created

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as part of a siri's Yeah that sounds clear to

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you than the omitted information is non restrictive That comma

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before that is a step in the right direction because

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commons air used to set off non restrictive clauses however

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without a second comma closing it off with a non

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restrictive closet And it looks like it include the rest

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of the sentence which it does not It's a non

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union sentence So it's not included Just using me which

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alone without commas isn't enough to establish a non restrictive

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klaus since we still need the commas to set it

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off from the rest of the senate So that's it

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The answer is c one right here painting comma which

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measured approximately twenty one inches by thirty one inches comma

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that the artist yet yetta Okay that's it We're done

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