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AP English Language and Composition 2.5 Passage Drill. The footnotes most clarify which of the following topics?
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- 00:00
Sorry and here's your smug du jour brought to you
- 00:04
by monarchs Without them there would be well on our
- 00:08
way All right check the following passage If you haven't
- 00:13
rave like humpy time The footnotes most clarify which of
- 00:32
the following topics and hear the potential answers Wait a
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- 00:39
minute You mean we actually have to pay attention All
- 00:42
that stuff in the italics at the end we thought
- 00:44
this was just decoration Sorry Well if you see footnotes
- 00:47
after a passenger on the test you can bet there's
- 00:49
going to be at least one question about on a
- 00:51
hand Well here it is It's Go time questions asking
- 00:54
what is most clarified by the footnote Not just what's
- 00:57
mentioned there So we need to be on the lookout
- 01:00
for something that brings new information to light or helps
- 01:03
us understand a concept a little better Is it a
- 01:06
noble and gentry's ultimate motives for aligning with the king
- 01:09
Well footnote number two addresses this point but the passage
- 01:12
already made it pretty clear So no it's not a
- 01:16
be explicit charges the parliament followers made against the king
- 01:20
and speaker already did a bang up job covering the
- 01:22
accusations made against the king Oh no need to beat
- 01:25
up on him Even more in the foot aren't d
- 01:28
the restrictions religious differences placed on military strategy's Well no
- 01:34
no mention of this in the footnotes Little red herring
- 01:36
e the pre existing animosity between the king And several
- 01:40
houses All right well we already picked up on that
- 01:42
tension in the passage We get it The king in
- 01:45
the houses aren't best buds no sleepovers in the castle
- 01:48
got it It means our answer is c the overriding
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reason the king accepted the catholics onto his side Yeah
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pasin says The king incorporated the catholics among his own
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forces but then sort of trails off and that's where
- 02:00
footnote number five steps up to the plate it explains
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in his own words the king's reasoning will see is 00:02:06.33 --> [endTime] our answer Oh one last footnote
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