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In this SAT Writing video, George Washington mopes in a carriage. Why not.
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SAT Writing and Language Drill 2.5 Sentence Structure 9 Views
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In this SAT Writing video, George Washington mopes in a carriage. Why not.
Transcript
- 00:02
Okay sadie shmoop er's We're moving on five of eleven
- 00:05
here and we're just going to scoot a few words
- 00:07
down in the same paragraph We were just looking at
- 00:09
which only he occupied How great our rug a little
- 00:12
freezing everything You always see it right here in the
Full Transcript
- 00:16
paragraph right there in big carriage which only he occupied
- 00:20
So just george sitting all by his lonesome in the
- 00:22
carriage kind of mo pee a little bit So when
- 00:26
only is an adverb A good rule of thumb is
- 00:29
to put it closest to the phrase it's modifying on
- 00:32
this case it's modifying he right there since he was
- 00:36
the one alone in the carriage only he clarifies that
- 00:39
there were no occupants other than washington So this is
- 00:43
probably gonna be a no change o thing right Putting
- 00:45
on lee between he and occupied only modifies occupied implying
- 00:49
that the only thing washington did carriage was occupy It
- 00:52
was kind of strange like you wouldn't say that normal
- 00:55
english And yes that may be true that he was
- 00:57
the only one occupying And hopefully he didn't vandalize it
- 01:00
out of frustration But that's not the implied meaning of
- 01:02
the sentence You kind of got to go with what
- 01:04
the test makers air asking you to find if climbing
- 01:07
their mind and read it And then well you kind
- 01:09
of get a little sick after doing that placing on
- 01:11
lee after occupied right there is maybe feasible But it's
- 01:15
also confusing since it could mean either that he was
- 01:19
the only occupant or that the only thing he did
- 01:22
was occupy and it's Not like a occupy wall street
- 01:25
The hypocrisy thing that we're trying to do here because
- 01:27
this phrase comes after a comma and because the sentences
- 01:30
meaning wouldn't change if it were deleted What we know
- 01:33
which on ly he occupied is a non restrictive claus
- 01:38
and that is only used with restrictive clauses So yeah
- 01:42
that's it Don't change it in which only he occupied 00:01:44.931 --> [endTime] All right we're done no
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