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SAT Writing and Language Drill 4.8 Effective Language Use 5 Views


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This SAT Writing video goes over how to maintain the parrallel structure of passive verbs. It's definitely an underrated topic.


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Okay next up writing eight of eleven in this lovely

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section Here we go It was in the cap it

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toll We're going to find that little phrase in our

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writings here you are definitely not something that i'm thinking

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about anything with deonte or the next four months for

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exhibiting working your ability in baltimore It was in the

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capital early in eighteen nineteen and was displayed or stored

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in various rooms If you want to get in from

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the other three things were installed in the rotunda to

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maintain the parallel structure of the passive verbs in this

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sentence follow the structure was plus past participle as in

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was put on public view or was displayed or in

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this case wass hung the sentences grammatically correct as is

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but it doesn't flow well due to the break in

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structure they're using The phrase had been makes the reader

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expect another action to interrupt meanings capital location for example

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It had been in the capitol before it was stolen

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by a band of masked burglars The conditional would be

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right there changes the meaning of sentence making it seem

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like the capital maybe the paintings home sometime in the 00:01:02.86 --> [endTime] future but it ain't

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