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What do austronauts and Michael Jackson have in common? Watch this video on sentence structure to find out!
Learn about effective language use from austronauts that like hoarding moon rocks in this SAT writing drill!
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Watch this SAT Reading video to find out more about the job outlook for urban plannters. How riviting.
Transcript
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All right jumpers Next one as an example were two
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in our series of eleven here All right let's go
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back to paragraph and find as an example It's right
- 00:11
there in the third sense as example Planner may examine
- 00:13
proposals for new school I'm sure that will meet the
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needs of changing population grows and changes It becomes popular
- 00:17
with robots and sandy's planners helping these manage that related
- 00:19
economic social and environmental issues What phrases like for instance
- 00:24
introduce a specific example of something that was just discussed
- 00:28
Usually in the previous sentence for instance is not only
- 00:31
a useful phrase but it's a flexible one too because
- 00:34
it really can go anywhere in the sentence you know
- 00:37
kind of like the cheese it stands alone Put it
- 00:40
after the first comma for instance and the sentences meaning
- 00:43
stays the same So that's our baby d there for
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instance go the loser pile here If you put as
- 00:49
an example a after that same comma well then the
- 00:53
sentence might mean that the planners are examining plans as
- 00:56
if those plans were an example wherever it is in
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the sentence as an example isn't as concise as for
- 01:03
example however an example by itself is an incomplete claws
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like be so rid of that What about the example
- 01:10
Well given that maybe grammatically correct but it suggests a
- 01:14
sequence of events like what was given here Where were
- 01:17
we told about the things that go on in same
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city There are urban planners who developed these planes and
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because of that while they examine plans for proposed facilities
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that's not quite the right relationship between sentences so that's 00:01:29.771 --> [endTime] it you know for instance
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