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PSAT 1.15 Writing Diagnostic. How would you change the underlined portion of the passage, if at all?
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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop douceur brought
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to you by restitution Paying back money has never been
- 00:09
more relaxing All right chuckles passage on scamming nuns from
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the yeah All right doc He said no yeah look
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all right how have you changed the bolo underlying portion
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- 00:26
of the passage If it all additional money will be
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needed And here the french lancers All right well the
- 00:33
underlying portion in this question looks really familiar to us
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Can't quite put our finger on it All right that's
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the note we'd send our parents want him on fact
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when we were away at college word for word pretty
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nuts But we're guessing that in this case it isn't
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a request for partying and or school supply related funds
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Here's the source sense from the passage When sotomayor told
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her additional money will be needed the nuns reached out
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to an even wider network Wow we didn't even know
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none for in the network Okay so this is basically
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a tense question Will was to would be or is
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those are four options Well will would only work if
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this way waas a direct quote I even sotomayor told
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her additional money will be needed The nuns reached out
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to an even wider network Once you put that bit
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in quotes you're telling the reader what sotomayor said word
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for word Unfortunately no one had a tape recorder going
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at the time so we're just looking at a rough
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summary of what he told sister family called reported speech
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and alas the word will won't work here so we
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have to change it Tio something is it be additional
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Money was to be needed It looks like hamlet's been
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here That guy loves taking to be into everything Yeah
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no it's overly wording and make zero grammatical sense So
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not to be is the answer What about the additional
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money is needed Thie is indicates present tense and the
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rest of this story is definitely all in the past
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tense It could be both simultaneously But now we're getting
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into quantum theory and wormholes And we're guessing you're not
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interested in string theory either We don't blame you Alright
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then It's gotta be c right Right It should be
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Additional money would be needed In the instance of reported
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speech Ah will becomes a wood transforming into the conditional
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Tense it's probably where that phrase comes from where there's
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a will there's a wood right possible that's Not correct 00:02:29.408 --> [endTime] I fell asleep in our aphorisms one on one
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