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TSI Writing: Choosing the Best Introductory Transition 18 Views


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Which of the following is best to insert at the beginning of sentence 8?


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Okay sy writing pumpers number three coming at you hear

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only from previously had resolved the issue quickly I'll take

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you to worry Animal shelter has extended my email visit

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nor showing a job My husband i went ahead and

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dominate a hundred and eight paragraph three i called north

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china linda's very upset in the final examination and overturned

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out in context Which of the following is best to

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insert at the beginning of sentence Eat Okay so we're

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gonna kind of quickly skimmed down and we want to

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put in Hunter had been in a kennel So yeah

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that's the beginning of sense they are So what are

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we gonna put in There is clearly a transition more

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thinking Well we'd like to take a moment think our

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friendly neighborhood transitions and not the eyeglass ones These folks

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are always hanging around at the beginning of sentences linking

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paragraphs and providing segways into the next big idea even

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though the animal shelter claimed hunter was a happy puppy

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since the healthy one poor hunter actually had kennel cough

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from you know being kept in a kennel again from

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being kept in a condo or on a farm the

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word that best connects hunters sad situation is unfortunately you

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see it's a negative one as a result next and

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to sum up terrible grammar there yeah yeah none of

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those work So you see you've got a sad tone

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ation here Unfortunately that kind of fits So the answer

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is a hope Hunter gets better and it can take

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just the kind of pill that you actually eat orally 00:01:36.713 --> [endTime] Yeah look

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