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Texas EOC English 2: 1.1 Revision 233 Views


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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by oil spills putting more birds

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and oil And colonel sanders ever did check out the

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following passage All right single baby and bigger cars And

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this monk carbon act we're trying We're done Yeah yeah

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Ok We're done What's the correct way to revise sentence

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to and here the potential answers Well tanya may know

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a thing or two about saving the environment but she

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sure needs a little help if she wants to save

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her sentence structure option a isn't much help it all

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Yeah certain big corporations are infamous for causing oil spills

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But how exactly do their bad reputations spread Well the

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corporation's definitely aren't advertising it themselves Sea gives us even

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less information than does a big corporations do sometimes cause

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oil spills Yeah but ton he's got more to tell

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us than that He is probably the worst option yet

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For one it gets the most awkward award m a

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Seriously this sentence is barely intelligible Read it also it

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doesn't get across the message that big corporations make the

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news when there's a big accident of any kind not

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Just in oil spill the correct answer is b This

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is a result of the widespread news coverage of catastrophic

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accidents like oil spills The purpose is sentenced to is

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to explain why we tend to blame big corporations for

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environmental issues he wins today because it make sure to

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include the idea that media coverage makes these oil spills

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famous Also be isn't total gobbledygook like answer d and

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yeah we're still not at ut Thank you Do you 00:01:32.746 --> [endTime] really love me

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