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AP English Language: Identifying Grammatically Parallel Words 8 Views
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Which of the following words is most grammatically parallel to "faculty" (line 23)?
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- 00:04
Okay More ap langer larne in foryou question Which of
- 00:09
the following words is most grammatically parallel to faculty Here
- 00:18
we go Science said the royal commission of eighteen sixty
- 00:21
one quickens and cultivates directly the faculty of observation the
- 00:25
faculty of observation We're saying it twice for emphasis there
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which in very many persons lies almost dormant through life
- 00:32
The power of inaccurate rap generalization of mental other women
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you know together Okay well after removing the superfluous adjectives
- 00:39
and there's a lot of flowery language in this thing
- 00:41
Faculty of observation power of generalization and habit of method
- 00:47
and arrangement are all dramatically similar Making power parallel toe
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faculty right A lot of faculty a lot of power
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So observation a method e and generalization d are all
- 00:58
parallel to each other kind of the same thing but
- 01:00
not too far Faculty right dormant b acts directly opposite
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to faculty but well that doesn't count So the answer
- 01:06
is c power right there in line twenty four and
- 01:09
let's just flip the switch on
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