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ELA Drills: Advanced: Parts of Speech 1. Separate the following words into infinitives and gerunds.
ELA Drills, Advanced: Textual Analysis 2. Which piece of evidence is irrelevant to the claim in the video?
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We're going to make a conclusion based on a statement, and it's your job to determine if that conclusion is true or false. If you can't come to a decision, the whole thing will be declared a mistrial. No pressure.
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- 00:04
Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by stolen computers quick
- 00:08
PSA you can prevent computer theft by you putting bars on your windows.. Read [Bars appear over Windows computer]
- 00:15
the following statement and determine whether the conclusion is true or false
- 00:19
based on the evidence statement: Elizabeth had never really meant to
- 00:24
actually return the laptop that she had borrowed from Tim she needed a new one
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- 00:28
for herself anyway and Tim wouldn't miss it conclusion: Elizabeth isn't
- 00:33
trustworthy...Here are the potential answers..true or false.. all right lie detector
- 00:38
time we've only got two possible answers either our conclusion is true or our [Girl taking a lie detector test]
- 00:42
conclusion is false let's put this question under the hot lights and see if
- 00:46
it breaks we're given a statement followed by a sentence that draws a
- 00:49
conclusion from the preceding text what we want to know is does it make sense to
- 00:54
draw this conclusion for are we getting ahead of ourselves well here are the [Person draws conclusion]
- 00:58
facts jack - Elizabeth borrowed Tim's laptop and never intended to return it
- 01:05
we have a word for that where we come from stealing! if Elizabeth isn't careful [Elizabeth stood by a large crime hole]
- 01:10
she's going to fall into a life of crime our prisons are chock-full of laptop
- 01:14
borrowers but there's always room for one more the conclusion states that
- 01:18
Elizabeth isn't trustworthy well, someone's trustworthy if we can trust them
- 01:23
right if someone tells us umpteen times they'll make it to our basketball game [Boy telling girl he will attend the basketball game]
- 01:28
and they never show up they're not trustworthy either that or they're [Girl bouncing basketball]
- 01:31
really bad with directions likewise if you lend someone a personal item and
- 01:36
they don't even plan on giving it back not trustworthy no way so does our
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conclusion hold water you betcha option A true is our answer and hey if you
- 01:45
don't think the bars on your windows will be enough to keep out Elizabeth [Bars rise up from windows computer]
- 01:48
you can always get yourself a security camera too let's be careful you don't
- 01:51
accidentally use it to a Skype your grandmother.... Hi honey, you have four
- 01:56
hours to chat? [Boys grandma chatting on skype]
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