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ACT Aspire English: "Even Though" vs. "Nevertheless" 3 Views


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Okay Yeah Spires were on eleven or twelve Almost done

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here Surviving tv instinctively all right But even though more

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that's the phrase that pays down paragraph four No other

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survival skills show has been able to rival survivor in

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terms of popularity and viewership But even though mohr and

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poor reality shows featuring survival in the wilderness are produced

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each year look terrible sentence like this perfect school Well

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who knows why the viewing public likes watching a bunch

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of contestants argue and betray each other mohr than it

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likes watching a person make a fire with sticks to

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cook the delicious worms he's dug up all by himself

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Well why is that It's a mystery to us One

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thing certain this sentence needs a makeover and a new

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transition And is that our makeover reality Show someone out

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there all right But even though a doesn't effectively set

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up the relationship between the two parts of the sense

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since the but with one t they're cancels out the

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contradiction that the author is trying to make while suggests

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that the two parts of the sentence go hand in

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hand like inbee But they don't and finally but further

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see that they're suggests that the second part of the

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sense is in addition to the first So they're all

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wrong Only nevertheless like indie works here because it indicates

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that cable networks are still producing new shows although they

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aren't as popular so it should read No other survival

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skills show has been able to rival survivor in terms

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of popularity and viewership But nevertheless more and more reality

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shows featuring arrive a little noose or produced each year 00:01:48.909 --> [endTime] that's it and were produced now eleven of twelve

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