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Texas EOC English 2: 3.4 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres 170 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 salad forks Because as we

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all know it's impossible to eat salad with those gigantic

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dinner forks just tried sometime Why would they build eating

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salad anywhere Makes no sense All right we done reading

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were skimming Come on our learned its prey on children

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blah blah blah All right we're done Okay Word a

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class used in the fourth sentence of paragraph two Probably

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means which of the following and here the potential answers

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a clock a classic for a clock You know who

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really Who cares All right what a clot is a

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french word that we might not have ever seen before

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Like ever Never fear the context is here Answer c

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isn't even in contender The pastor's never described mrs hall

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is clumsy and yeah we're just jumping right down to

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see did she slip in a puddle and spill soup

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in the stranger's lap No she does not She is

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definitely not careless either Mrs hall is trying to impress

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the stranger with her piping hot food and amazing table

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setting abilities So she's taking great care and what she's

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Doing option d doesn't make the cut either Mrs hall

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is excited that the stranger is there because she doesn't

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get many guests this time of year So she's not

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slogging through the dinner preparations out of a sense of

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obligation she's pumped about the whole thing and the guys

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paying retail member he didn't haggle on the price be

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gets us a little closer to where we need to

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be But the pastors doesn't imply that mrs hall is

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super proud or pretentious even though it does use a

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french word to describe her table setting process We love

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the french Come on you guys makes more sauce The

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correct answer is a mrs Hall wants to make sure

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her visitor knows that she's the hostess with the mostest

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so it's a safe guess that a clock describes when

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somebody's trying to make a show of something chill mrs

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all he's a in a blizzard there it's not like

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he's going to go head out down a beaver with 00:01:59.436 --> [endTime] a salad Wait

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