ShmoopTube
Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.
Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos
SAT Writing and Language Videos 88 videos
What do austronauts and Michael Jackson have in common? Watch this video on sentence structure to find out!
Learn about effective language use from austronauts that like hoarding moon rocks in this SAT writing drill!
What's the whole essay about? How does time control or matter to the essay as a whole?
SAT Writing and Language Drill 8.4 Development 2 Views
Share It!
Description:
Another SAT Writing video on whether a sentence sound be added to improve this passage on The Treasury's Beginnings.
Transcript
- 00:03
Okay a city reading shmoop er's Here we go Four
- 00:05
of eleven To improve the flow of the essay the
- 00:07
author is considering adding the following sentence to the end
- 00:10
of paragraph one Should the sentence be added the congress
- 00:14
stipulated that each of the colony's contribute proportionally All right
Full Transcript
- 00:21
so let's see this is the end of paragraph one
- 00:23
so it would go right here after a yeti at
- 00:25
a congress issued two million dollars in bills on july
- 00:28
twenty fifth congress hired twenty eight said this is the
- 00:30
philadelphia to sign and number of the currency where they'd
- 00:33
be a busy hand running all that So then the
- 00:35
next sentence would be the congress stipulated that each of
- 00:38
the colony's contribute proportionally So should they add that that's
- 00:42
kind of weird like where the colonies come from You
- 00:45
don't know Well because it raises so many questions Putting
- 00:48
this sentence at the end of the first paragraph would
- 00:50
end in kind of a jolt there What are the
- 00:53
colony's contributing Just like a stone soup or something Is
- 00:56
the proportion in terms of population size the golf handicap
- 01:02
Maybe the essay never says leaving this sentence sticking out
- 01:05
like a sore thumb So yeah it's got to be
- 01:07
a no because just nowhere else mentioned that comes out
- 01:11
of nowhere all right and lose around Just because this
- 01:13
sense is vague does not mean it contradicts the main
- 01:16
point of the first paragraph which is about the early
- 01:18
days of money management in the colonies Likewise just because
- 01:22
the sentence doesn't contradict the main point doesn't mean that
- 01:24
ad's relevant information See goodbye infact it leaves us feeling
- 01:29
like we have even less information since it raises new
- 01:32
questions left unanswered Will the paragraphs are linked by criminology
- 01:35
So adding information about colonies without any date makes the
- 01:38
transition rougher not smother So yeah get rid of the
- 01:41
right answers eh In the colonies Sorry just keeping it 00:01:45.539 --> [endTime] real You're not invited to this party
Related Videos
Learn about effective language use from austronauts that like hoarding moon rocks in this SAT writing drill!
What's the whole essay about? How does time control or matter to the essay as a whole?
This SAT Writing videos goes over when to keep or ditch an extra sentence.
This SAT Writing video goes over an analysis of producers, suppliers and manufacturers on clean energy. Pretty cool huh!
Do tenses confuse you? Watch this SAT Writing video to get some practice in