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This SAT Writing video goes over the word 'regardless' in a passage about our first president.
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This SAT Writing video goes over the word 'regardless' in a passage about our first president.
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- 00:03
All right see shmoop er's just a few more here
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next edit the word regardless and we're looking for it
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in the document here cruising cruising and you'll have to
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do this is why we kind of cruise through in
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the beginning So its very last sentence like this only
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they're going for the minute continue because it's not even
- 00:22
that expensive remembered his heavy personal expenses were revolutionary war
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never ignored the request for a goodwill gesture that he
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would never repeat Washington urged members that are whatever legislation
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he considered appropriate does regardless work in this when really
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it kind of feels pretty awkward There's something else going
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on here Well in the first sentence of the paragraph
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right chair we learned that the president asked congress for
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only one thing You think the guy who saved our
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country get that one But then the next sentence says
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he asked for a second thing wondering politics liars and
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politics are inaccurate reporting it couldn't happen to show that
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he's just about done asking for things Well we need
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a phrase that conveys the equivalent of after those first
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two things and lastly does the trick lastly see that
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Woodwork that's in there so it sets off the end
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of the phrase if the second last sentence were in
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the parenthesis regardless might work because it sets up a
- 01:13
contrast between what was just said and what's Coming next
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however there's really no contrast between asking for the salary
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and asking congress to pass whatever legislation they pleased or
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washington place Likewise on the other hand also sets up
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a contrast That's not there like on what other hand
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like what other proposal was made It was just past
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the laws that i tell you to pass and finally
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all things considered well that's typically used to start a
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sentence it's focusing on the silver lining of a whole
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list of bad things in a bad situation For washington 00:01:44.924 --> [endTime] at least for the moment all was well
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