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SAT Writing & Language: Does This Sentence Support the Essay Topic? 7 Views


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This SAT Writing videos goes over when to keep or ditch an extra sentence.


Transcript

00:03

all right shmoopers moving on to question

00:05

four of eleven here in this fine article

00:08

about energy and materials and carbon

00:10

fiber and stuff here we go...[person talking fast]

00:20

paragraph focuses on large-scale

00:22

manufacturing and recycling of advanced

00:25

composite materials so it's not really

00:27

geared toward the everyday American

00:28

bringing up public outreach and

00:30

education mid paragraph it's kind of [list of distractions appear]

00:33

distracting right it distracts from the

00:34

manufacturing focus here it's written

00:36

for pros by pros in pros we do that's

00:39

clever though the sense mentions the

00:41

importance of recycling advanced

00:42

composites a right there it's referring [woman sitting by campfire]

00:45

to production not public service

00:47

announcements about conservation and no

00:49

smoking in don't like the forests on [smokey the bear appears]

00:51

fire giving examples of what the

00:53

Institute's up to is well and good but

00:55

it doesn't fit right smack in the middle

00:57

of a paragraph that's focused on

00:58

manufacturing we all like eco-friendly

01:01

materials but expanding on this sentence

01:03

would make it more of an interruption

01:04

well then it already is so the answer is

01:06

D delete it because it well it kind of

01:09

strays from the focus there so keep that [binoculars focus on smokey the bear]

01:11

thing in focus

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