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In this SAT Writing video on The Well-Rounded Curriculum, the word "Instead" is analyzed. How exciting is that eh?!
Transcript
- 00:03
Okay estate each member's next up four of eleven right
- 00:06
here instead of just one word that that working for
- 00:10
you not really working for us It's right down here
- 00:13
paragraph starts with from thomas jefferson on we're leaving We've
- 00:16
been talking about going for anything before we got on
Full Transcript
- 00:18
a prison everyone's at every local bookseller instead washington did
- 00:20
not recount the recent triumphs over the british gas for
- 00:22
books instead because he wrote to encourage literature and art
- 00:24
is a duty which every good citizen owes to his
- 00:26
country Well the beginning of this sentence needs a transition
- 00:29
word suggesting that what washington did wasn't what might be
- 00:33
expected right It was like instead of a diversion washington
- 00:37
had just won that huge war with the brits there
- 00:40
so it wouldn't be crazy to see some humble brags
- 00:44
in his letter written only a few weeks later However
- 00:47
that's not what he wrote about this word appropriately conveys
- 00:50
the contrast presented in this sentence however that's what should
- 00:54
be there for instead to make sense the previous sense
- 00:57
would need to mention the thing that washington was expected
- 01:00
to do and then you know did something else whatever
- 01:02
Could work if we said something like whatever the outcome
- 01:06
of the war washington would continue to advocate for arts
- 01:09
education But we didn't say that did way having nothing
- 01:12
but a comma after whatever is like a way to
- 01:15
cash for this essay Finally without a little more information
- 01:18
there's really no way to know whether mentioning the war
- 01:20
would have been bad for washington so luckily doesn't fit
- 01:24
here Either Answer is d however or we could say 00:01:27.873 --> [endTime] however the answer is d however
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