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ACT English: Passage Drill 1, Problem 13. Proper flow of sentences in a paragraph.
ACT English: Passage Drill 3, Problem 14. For the sake of logic and coherence, where should paragraph 2 be placed?
ACT English: Passage Drill 4, Problem 14. For the sake of logic and coherence in this paragraph, where should sentence 5 be placed?
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ACT English: Organization Drill 1, Problem 2. Picking the right transition word.
- Rhetorical Skills / Organization: Sentences and Paragraphs
- Product Type / ACT English
- English I EOC Assessment / Introductory and Concluding Paragraphs
- English I EOC Assessment / Organization
- Expository Texts / Rhetorical Devices and Transistions
- Essay Revision / Coherence, Organization, and Word Choice
- Essay Revision / Rhetorical Effectiveness and Use of Organization
- Rhetorical Skills / Organization
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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the wheels on the bus. Like Congress, they
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just go 'round and 'round.
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What should replace the underlined portion below, if anything?
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Despite being late, I had also forgotten my backpack in the bus.
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"Being late" is not a great thing... and neither is forgetting a backpack; both kinda
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exist in the same slacker world.
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We have to keep this relationship in mind as we try to find the right transition word
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or phrase to connect these ideas.
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Choice (A) sets up the wrong relationship by using "despite." This word usually
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sets up some kind of contrast. "My grandma is cool, despite all the camouflage she wears,"
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would be an example.
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We're not in the market for contrast in this sentence, however, so (A) is off the
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table.
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(B) is incorrect because this sentence stands alone, not as an example.
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Something like this might have worked: "That kid was always slacking. For example, he was
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continually late and always forgot his backpack."
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We're trying to find the word or phrase that shows how these two things go together,
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not how one is an example of the other.
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Choice (C) is an incorrect usage of the transition "furthermore."
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"Furthermore" is what's known as a conjunctive adverb, not a disease, and it's typically used to relate
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two independent clauses to each other.
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Something like, "I was late; furthermore, I had forgotten my backpack," would be on
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the right track.
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The trouble here is that "being late" is not an independent clause, meaning that's
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it not a sentence that can stand on its own.
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Also, "furthermore" comes before the two ideas we're trying to connect, rather than
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in between them.
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(D) wins the day by using the prepositional phrase "in addition to," which correctly
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relates "being late" with the independent clause "I had also forgotten my backpack
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in the bus."
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Hey, at least there are worse times
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to be late.
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