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Description:
This SAT Writing video goes over how to maintain the parrallel structure of passive verbs. It's definitely an underrated topic.
Transcript
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Okay next up writing eight of eleven in this lovely
- 00:05
section Here we go It was in the cap it
- 00:07
toll We're going to find that little phrase in our
- 00:13
writings here you are definitely not something that i'm thinking
- 00:16
about anything with deonte or the next four months for
Full Transcript
- 00:18
exhibiting working your ability in baltimore It was in the
- 00:20
capital early in eighteen nineteen and was displayed or stored
- 00:22
in various rooms If you want to get in from
- 00:23
the other three things were installed in the rotunda to
- 00:25
maintain the parallel structure of the passive verbs in this
- 00:28
sentence follow the structure was plus past participle as in
- 00:33
was put on public view or was displayed or in
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this case wass hung the sentences grammatically correct as is
- 00:41
but it doesn't flow well due to the break in
- 00:43
structure they're using The phrase had been makes the reader
- 00:47
expect another action to interrupt meanings capital location for example
- 00:51
It had been in the capitol before it was stolen
- 00:53
by a band of masked burglars The conditional would be
- 00:57
right there changes the meaning of sentence making it seem
- 01:00
like the capital maybe the paintings home sometime in the 00:01:02.86 --> [endTime] future but it ain't
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