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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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