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PSAT 1.20 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 smoke du jour
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brought to you by archaeologists whenever they suffer a setback
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in their research efforts there usually good about just testing
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themselves off and trying again Turn that frown upside Alright
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Rock art vandalism read This doesn't time given grand canyon
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park I get it and cool and here we go
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How would you change the bolo underlying portion of the
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passage if it all you're not supposed to do And
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here the potential answers and boy can tell you they
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that phrase felt weirder than a mouthful of marbles and
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as weird goes a mouthful of marbles is pretty high
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up there so we're feeling confident something's gonna have to
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be done about it but let's read the original sentence
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first before we do anything rash here it is in
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short for reasons both cultural and legal it is something
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you're not supposed to do All right if you say
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it quickly enough it sounds like in my fly but
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using the word sub suppose in this sense without attacking
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a d on the end that was common pitfall the
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phrase is supposed to not supposed to even if they
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do sound similar when spoken aloud and really fast We
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need the past participle if we're using the passive voice
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which we are and in this instance that's the word
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supposed it so we're not supposed to use the phrase
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supposed to No we just make it work anyway answer
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a campy right let's keep our options open Well since
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we've already established in the correct phrase is supposed to
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it can't be you're not supposedly to do it is
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more awkward than showing up but what you've been told
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New beach it's No time for a change in the
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word into an adverb so we can next b all
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right is c right Should we drop the do hey
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you got to do that would kill us all Dog
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common club No uh we need to do without it
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We don't have a verb and without a verb we
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don't have a complete sense So as the ad execs
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and pepsico would say do the do yeah you're welcome
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for the advertising guys that was free option d you're
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not supposed to do is the way to go here
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It keeps the verb and uses the right form of
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supposed and that means a marble free mouth On an
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unrelated note we've got a box of marbles for sale 00:02:26.3 --> [endTime] gently used
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