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predator, it is at the top
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- 00:03
Okay Aspiring t test taker people Here we go Six
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of twelve predator It is at the top right there
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That's the focus We're going to go all the way
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down paragraph three and just skipping over one into because
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we just did them All right here we go The
Full Transcript
- 00:17
great white is an apex predator comma It is at
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the top of the ocean food chain Okay well we
- 00:26
got problems here is well Is another case of the
- 00:32
old comma slice And since all of the answer choices
- 00:35
include akama looks like we're stuck with this structure The
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use of and right there to connect two parts of
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send suggests that apex predator and being at the top
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of the food chain are somehow separate even though the
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second part of the sentence explains that the term apex
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predator in fact means that the predator is at the
- 00:52
top of the food chain right Well if we say
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that the great white is an apex predator because it
- 00:59
is at the top of the food chain we indicate
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causation when all we need's an explanation of the term
- 01:03
So you get rid of d there which means gives
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us that explanation So it's b and then the sentence
- 01:10
reads like this The great white is an apex predator
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comma which means it is at the top of the
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ocean food chain That's it way simpler and well we're
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not Let's go find seal to chew out here
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