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PSAT 1.1 Writing Diagnostic. How should the underlined portion be changed in the passage, if at all?
PSAT 1.10 Writing Diagnostic. How would you change the below underlined portion of the passage, if at all?
PSAT 1.11 Writing Diagnostic. How would you change the underlined portion, if at all?
PSAT 1.4 Writing Diagnostic 239 Views
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PSAT 1.4 Writing Diagnostic. Which choice most effectively combines the two sentences in the underlined portion?
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Hurry and here's your smoke do sure brought to you
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by motor coaches it was only a matter of time
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before robots infiltrated sports world in battle bots awesome All
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right check out this passage were better tombstone way Read
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this bunch time force which gonna skim skim skim scam
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scam skin and hum lower skimming now we don't know
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which choice most effectively combines the two sentences in the
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underlined portion but they're continuous audio and video system audio
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and video system recorded and here the fence lancer what
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a mess All right time for a combo deal Unfortunately
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this one doesn't come with fries and a shake We're
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being asked to take this stuff right here and combined
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them to get rid of that unsightly period a punctuation
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much But before we jump in here we should look
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back in the paragraph where these lines lives so we
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could get a sense of the meaning The motor coach
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was equipped with lap and shoulder belts and with a
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continuous audio and video system audio and video system recorded
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pre crash information from a forward facing camera Oh yeah
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yeah we can now see why this part needs some
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Work No reason to say audio and video system a
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million times Alright let's mull over our answer choices and
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see if any of them grab us Hopefully not from
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behind All right First up a continuous audio and video
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system that recorded audio video of ah what else Wouldn't
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audio video system record We're still repeating those words way
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more than we need thio they sound good together we
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get it You want to give your tongue a treat
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but it could be more concise Let's keep trying What
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about b continuous audio and video system and the system
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recorded Well now we're not repeating the navy part toward
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system is getting too much play Still repetitive Still not
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right We could stretch be like a bad itch The
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continuous system of audio and video for recording Well definitely
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closer But we don't just want to know what it's
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there for You want to know what it's doing The
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more active the voice the better little mermaid could tell
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you that so it ain't the either sees where it's
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at continuous audio and video system that recorded bingo The
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second sentence out of this paris clarifying what The audio
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And video system did in the first sentence So we're
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dealing with a restrictive clause All the info is necessary
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So we can't go cutting it willy nilly We need
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to keep it all in there which means we need
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to use the word that when combining a tte least 00:02:32.525 --> [endTime] that's what our motor coaches instructed us to do
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