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According to the information presented in the first and second paragraph (lines 1-26), it can be reasonably inferred that the kingdom of the Luggna...
In line 27, the adjective "inexpressible" is used
The main idea of the second paragraph (lines 24-33) can best be restated that
AP English Literature: Inferring About the Luggnaggians 33 Views
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According to the information presented in the first and second paragraph (lines 1-26), it can be reasonably inferred that the kingdom of the Luggnaggians is
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No Okapi England Next question Up here we go According
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to the information presented in the first and second paragraph
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it's lines one through twenty six We'll get there We'll
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get there It can reasonably be inferred that the kingdom
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of the Luna Gideon's is what All right so we'll
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one through twenty six But I mean I'm polite of
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generous people in an empty feeling Eastern countries an interpreter
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one day whether I had seen their string immortals me
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spot described in a time group Continue Coal black All
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right close enough Here we go with the key here
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is in the lines twenty three twenty two right there
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I would say that these births were so rare that
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he did not believe there could be above eleven hundred
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rule Berg's of both sexes in the whole kingdom of
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which he computed about fifty in the metropolis Yet right
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there So for the sake of argument well let's just
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assume that so rare means one in a thousand which
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would mean the population of the kingdom is over a
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million If only fifty are in that metropolis wealthy other
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thousand fifty must be scattered over a huge area So
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the answer They're at sea right expansive and well populated
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When the author says he spoke to a person of
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quality he's suggesting that the kingdom is not egalitarian right
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otherwise that well there'd be no quality and by definition
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not quality people right He says that Luke Nanyan Zara
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polite and generous people and be there though he is
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always attended to by his interpreter So get rid of
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eat And finally according to that aforementioned person of quality
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the stroll Berg births are a mere effect of chance
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meaning Well no one controls them That's it The answer 00:01:48.75 --> [endTime] is C court
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