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seemed as it should be raining
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- 00:03
All right Aspiring test takers here Let's go to four
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of twelve And the focus is seemed as it should
- 00:12
be raining right there Read the first paragraph way too
- 00:15
many times We're gonna skip it and go down to
- 00:18
number two Here are houses roof one house we'll fix
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- 00:21
that last time was made of sheets of heavy aluminum
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pattering Rain beats down along asleep Bam agreed covered patio
- 00:26
When we arrived in panama i couldn't believe the heat
- 00:30
It was like nothing i had ever experienced And rain
- 00:33
it did We endured eight months of heavy rains followed
- 00:37
by four months of dry scorching heat It was so
- 00:39
intensely human that it seemed as it should be raining
- 00:43
at any moment that mobley wrongs that think about here
- 00:48
We're looking for noah and pairs manholes in a big
- 00:51
boat going by yet Well the sentence is trying to
- 00:54
communicate that it was so human that it felt like
- 00:57
it could rain at any moment Were based in california
- 01:00
here when we're not living in the internet so we
- 01:03
don't get to experience that kind of weather every day
- 01:06
The folks in queer yout mobile and astoria however that
- 01:10
you do has written the underlined part is missing the
- 01:13
word if and the word should isn't quite the best
- 01:18
to convey the author's meaning either So you give her
- 01:20
to see there would be raining ism or awkward version
- 01:24
of a sentence we want to revise on lee Seemed
- 01:26
like it could Rain effectively conveys the meaning of the
- 01:30
phrase in question So it's the best choice here and
- 01:32
you kind of got to get inside the author's head
- 01:34
and think about what they were trying to day right
- 01:36
So it should read It was so intensely human that
- 01:40
it seemed like it could rain at any moment Yeah
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way smoother All right that's the answer is b and 00:01:48.123 --> [endTime] be cool
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