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