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SAT Writing and Language Drill 8.6 Sentence Structure 3 Views


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What was the Treasury Office of Accounts comprised of? Watch this SAT Writing video on the Treasury's Beginnings for the answer...while also getting a chance to practice your writing skills of course.


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Okay Writing shmoop er's Here we go We're on six

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of eleven here and keep let's Go find that puppy

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you were looking for and keep All right Here we

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go Right on april fool's day treasury office of accounts

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a comprising an auditor general and clerk say we just

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fix that error before was established to facilitate the settlement

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of claims and keep the public accounts for the government

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of the united colonies All right And keep well let's

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see uh bad is a good sound Awful let's Think

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here Well we have tohave parallel structure and we're looking

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at the other options and this too right there And

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to keep helps because he got to maintain parallel structure

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and verbs While this sentence needs the infinitive verb to

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keep that infinitive parallels then the first infinitive to facilitate

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the right They're very very subtle very tricky All right

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well the right answer then is d and to keep

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while it may sound all right in conversation you know

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from up this one would have passed the sentence as

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is lacks the parallel structure required in sentences that list

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verb clauses If the first verb analyst is an inf

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definitive like begins with two whatever Like two shmoop that's

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An infinitive even if the list is just two items

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long while all the rest of the verbs must also

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be infinitives Yeah well that rules out adverb conjugated in

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the present progressive like keeping something lucy as well as

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a verb in the past tense like kept so goodbye 00:01:28.528 --> [endTime] be and well let's Just keep on going

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