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Which word or phrase best replaces the underlined word in sentence 14?
Transcript
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All right sy reading shmoop er's Last one in this
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siri's here it's Critical to understand how to properly dispose
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of and recycle electronic mp three players Boy was written
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a long time ago And place your ban if you
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agree to sell you know i'm practically seventy percent devices
Full Transcript
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Second line love a block ginny in context Which word
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or phrase Best replaces the underlined word and sentenced fourteen
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Okay so we're going to replace this thing computers right
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here So the sentence let's find it in contact and
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i kind of skimmed down to it as we go
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here Computers are part of most people's daily lives But
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when it come time to upgrade Don't put your computers
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in the trash Okay Yeah i get it All right
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Well let's think about this redundancy is bad Probably because
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it's so repetitive says the same thing again and again
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and again and again Right We don't want to do
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that Be redundant So to eliminate redundancy we recommend a
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healthy dose of ward choice here you strong verbs descriptive
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adjectives and concrete Now nes to eliminate the use of
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the same word over and over and over and over
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again Right Well what we need is something that says
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old and busted without being repetitive or elementary right Outdated
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motherboard is definitely the way to go That's a kind
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of hip motherboard just so cool all right so that's
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c is the right answer and the loser bowl here
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Reason these things don't work well The word electronics is
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certainly a different word than computer but it's used a
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bunch of times already in the passage so it's not
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new or different computers Digital that goes without saying right
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But in the context of this sense it doesn't make
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any sense Grammatically simply adding an adjective won't reduce redundancies
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either Used computers Yeah well basically says the same thing
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is computer so that's it The answer is c outdated 00:01:46.359 --> [endTime] motherboard and from this section no way
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