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TSI Writing: Rearranging a Sentence to Improve the Order of Events 1 Views
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Think about how you would rewrite the following sentences according to the directions given, and then choose the best answer for each. Keep in mind that your revision should not change the meaning of the original sentence.
One must establish a hypothesis
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- 00:03
Our idea Site editing shmoop er's We're in the last
- 00:06
section here a five in this group and then we're
- 00:08
done Who of the who Before performing an experiment one
- 00:12
must establish a hypothesis are going to rewrite this baby
- 00:17
One must establish ah hypothesis What All right well basically
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- 00:28
this sentence is all about the old switcheroo Instead of
- 00:31
going at the end of the sentence the revised stem
- 00:34
begins with one must establish well before performing An experiment
- 00:38
now brings up the end so we just say a
- 00:41
one must establish ah hypothesis before performing an experiment and
- 00:46
through d it might be tempting to start the rest
- 00:49
of the sentence with then is an a But remember
- 00:51
that the word then can't be used on its own
- 00:54
is a conjunction Don't change the meaning of a sentence
- 00:56
by switching things up when you should make a hypothesis
- 01:00
Yeah bnc that's it Okay so the answer is d 00:01:03.251 --> [endTime] before performing shmoop ing
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