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One word: Hill. That's what this SAT Writing video is looking into.
Transcript
- 00:02
Okay writing shmoop er's Here we go Question Three of
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eleven hill That's it just one word underlined and let's
- 00:12
Go see what context it's in Oh it's in a
- 00:14
bunker we must be playing golf The delegates finally resolved
- 00:18
to issue paper money in the form of bills of
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- 00:20
credit Promising redemption with a small are there in coin
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on faith in the revolutionary cause On june twenty to
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seventeen seventy five only a few days after the battle
- 00:30
of bunker hill congress issued two million dollars in bills
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What's wrong with that bunker hill city We got dash
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in there and a colon and semi colon and akama
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who This is tricky So think about this when an
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m dashes used to set off a parenthetical klaus another
- 00:48
m dash is needed to end the parent's medical claws
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Right that way There's Well matching punctuation to signal the
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beginning in the end of the aside Got it So
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it's c hill dash and loserville round here Yeah comma
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would be correct only if common had been used to
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start the parent medical klaus Quote on ly a few
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days after the battle of bunker hill unquote a semi
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colon be can be used on lee when the parts
- 01:12
of the sentence on either side of it could stand
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alone like cheese as complete sentences hear the first part
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of sentence becomes incomplete which isn't fair to those of
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us dying to know what happened on june twenty second
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seventeen seventy five alright get rid of beep and then
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d coghlan's introduce an elaboration on what was just said
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What happened on a date isn't an elaboration of the
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date so much as an explanation of why the date
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was well brought up in the first place So that's
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it correct answer is c hill dash and that's what
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the red coats did when we chased him away Shmoop
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