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ACT English: Passage Drill 2, Problem 11. Which of the following sentences would make the most effective transition?
In this ACT English passage drill determine if the writer of the passage may or may not have achieved their proposed goal.
ACT English: Passage Drill Drill 3, Problem 2. What would the paragraph lose if the writer omits the underlined phrase?
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ACT English: Style Drill 1, Problem 3. Which choice best matches the formality of the sentence?
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Hurry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by white bread just as wheat bread is made for
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wheat white bread is made from white All right well
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how would you correct the underlying portion below if it
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all it's weird toe learn But scientific research has shown
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that our diet can include certain types of white bread
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Well what do you think What What All right well
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this sends lectures us on the results of scientific research
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which is definitely a formal pa pick Even if the
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subject of this particular study is what gregg who says
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that white bread can therefore we know we're looking for
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the answer that matches the rest of the sentence in
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formality is incorrect because the underlined portion in the original
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sentence uses the word weird This sounds too conversational to
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be employed in the unveiling of scientific research A scientist
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wouldn't sound all that legitimate if his or her brilliant
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conclusion after years of painstaking research was simply that a
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particular phenomenon wass weird And so we conclude that white
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bread is weird Well let's give a boo choice be
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tries to take the sentence off with joking aside Well
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we're not in on the joke though so it doesn't
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make much sense so forgive us if we don't laugh
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Joking aside is also a mega casual phrase so we
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can cross that be his too informal is well maybe
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they're wrong but well it sounds like somebody is chatting
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up their friend in a coffee shop Choice D just
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doesn't jive with the formal tone of the rest of
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the sentence I see is the correct answer because in
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spite of what we've learned is the most formal choice
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of the bunch Now that the sentence sounds legit white
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bread lovers out there can finally eat bleached flour with 00:01:44.948 --> [endTime] confidence
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