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PSAT 1.5 Reading Diagnostic. Which sentence from the passage provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?
PSAT 2.1 Reading Diagnostic. President Kennedy refers to the United Nations in the first paragraph primarily to...what?
PSAT 2.2 Reading Diagnostic. What is the main rhetorical effect of this phrase in the second paragraph?
TSI Reading: Defining "Edition" in Context 1 Views
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Description:
Which of the following phrases best represents the tone of the passage?
(A)Four hundred gallons
(B)Is it any wonder
(C)conservation through innovation
(D)high-efficiency dishwashers
Transcript
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Okay see reading shoppers Got another fine paragraph for you
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and let you skip to the question Here what's the
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meaning of the word addition as it's used in the
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passage What All right What does it mean Let's Just
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skin Because the answer don't mean much to us right
Full Transcript
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now Mary shelley wrote frankenstein and summer eighteen sixteen amazingly
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young age of eighteen The inspiration came her while she
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was vacationing with some for writer friends A ghost story
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contest suggests and she was inspired to write what has
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become one of the most famous horse stories in english
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lit or story centered on what happens when science and
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mortality collide In eighteen eighteen she finished the story and
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published it is ah horror novel in eighteen thirty one's
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republished with major edits even though that publication is the
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addition The majority people read today It's worth reading eighteen
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eighteen edition because it's written in the author's original words
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Okay moving on all right Answers what's the meaning of
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the word edition Well in the last light of the
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pastor's the other refers to two editions of shelly's working
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last one right there the one that underwent major edits
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and shelley's original unedited edition In other words a dish
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in refers to a certain version or printed copy of
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frankenstein Here got it in the loser bowl Well correcting
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the spelling and grammar works also known as added ting
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edition and supplementary pieces are in addition to an existing
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piece Given editions context in the passage it wouldn't make
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sense for it to refer to an appraisal or determination
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of its value So the answer is it's c that's
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