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PSAT 1.12 Writing Diagnostic. How would you change the underlined portion, if at all?
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Thank you We sneak and here's your smoke du jour
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brought to you by catholic sisters Like most sisters they're
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always borrowing each other's Clothing are check out this passage
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scamming non no elderly Because i'm spending money is him
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For the money All right how would you change the
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bolo underlying portion of the passage if it all nevertheless
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and hear the financial answers All right what do you
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think Well nevertheless is not what poe's raven kept squawking
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about Uh we're not sure we tuned it out after
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about the fifth time Say something interesting or fly back
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outside and bother someone else That's our feelings on the
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matter Okay passage time Where does nevertheless show up And
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what other words have it surrounded Well here we go
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Well the scam began when soto maior claiming to be
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a new jersey priest called a fatima sister and said
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that a deceased member of his parish community had named
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her the beneficiary of a two point one million dollar
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estate Nevertheless none of it was true Wow this guy
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seems like a real sweetheart We're pretty sure impersonating a
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priest a swindle Nuns ranks right up there with pickpocketing
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and orphan and mugging a puppy who could ever hold
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up a face like that at gunpoint So we get
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a description of everything sotomayor told this poor woman and
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then we're told that nevertheless none of it was true
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Well the word nevertheless can be used to show a
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contrast but we're more likely to use it when something
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is true But a second thing happens anyway like it
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was true that tunney's big sister sara had gotten a
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ride in front seat of the last four trips to
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the mall Nevertheless she was going to sit there again
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because what was that little pip squeak going to do
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about it Or tania The point is nevertheless a quite
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work here so let's shop around what's option b selling
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could it be on the other hand And we've basically
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got same issue here that we had with never less
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when we say on the other hand were generally considering
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two opposing possibilities like sarah considered being nice for once
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and offering her sir is in the front seat on
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the other hand being mean made her feel oh so
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much better though it ain't b d consequently well we
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use this word when one thing is a consequence of
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another obviously which isn't the case in this passage It
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might be if we said something like sarah was unyielding
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in her insistence that she once again sit infront consequently
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Tanya kick the back of her sister see the entire
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ride Well we can scratch the which leaves us with
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seat Of course yeah we're just kind of saying that
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based on what we've been told previously about this soda
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moya our character were not the least bit surprised that
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he'd pull something like this So we throw in of
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course in there and option c it is Oh and
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of course tania totally forgot about her sister's ability and 00:02:45.09 --> [endTime] pull the recline lever
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