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ELA Drills, Beginner: Comparing and Contrasting 4. What do these two sentences have in common?

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00:04

And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by camping

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it's that fun-filled time where we decide to regress a few hundred years [Family around a tent]

00:10

and poop in a hole well we go look for an actual bathroom thank you very much

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why don't you take a look at these two sentences camping can be a fun family [Sentences appear]

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activity in the summer you'll need a tent cooking supplies and safety gear

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when you go camping of your todays question what are these two sentences

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have in common and here your potential answers alright fun activity is

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important well because we like to consider ourselves decent folk we'll [Bear appears in the woods]

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give you some advice donkey food around your campsite unless you want to wake up

00:40

to find bears throw on a barbecue also read those sentences carefully and keep [Man screams as bear cooking a barbecue]

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an eye out for key words if any of the key words match we have a winner ding

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ding ding if not it's time to go back to the drawing board and if you don't have

00:51

a drawing board well maybe it's time to buy a drawing board [Man answers door and drawing board falls on him]

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you think so keeping all that in mind let's check a if we take a look at the

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two sentences we can see that fun activities to do with your family comes

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up in the first sentence but not the second camping might be a fun activity

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to do with your family but comparing sentences find differences probably [Family in a tent comparing sentences]

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isn't even if you do it in a tent while leaving s'mores either way is not right

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what about B hmm well it concerns about safety come up in the second tent but

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not the first so if you're all concerned with getting right answer you definitely

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won't pick B how about D summer activities come up in the first sentence

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but not in the second and comparing sentences is an activity that can be [Man looking at sentences in field]

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done in all seasons we highly recommend fall while the leaves are changing and

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you can sip on a PSL from Starbucks but in all seasons D is still the wrong

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answer which leaves us with C camping comes up not just in the first sentence

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but the second as well so both sentences have camping in common and bingo we have

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our answer and one so that certainly easier than trying to shoe a fan in the [Family trying to poke a bear cooking on the barbecue]

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face barbecue

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