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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour Brought to you by appropriate language Hint Anything you

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hear on the school bus probably doesn't count Okay i

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first read the past below from the conclusion of a

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letter of recommendation after always imagine program can affirm it

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is teaching island out of gratitude and this thing we're

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teaching a warm jacob fairly felling Okay Now click the

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drop down menu and choose the option that correctly completes

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the sentence and the options are is quality totally awesome

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All right well word choice isn't always a matter of

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being right and wrong Sometimes it's about being appropriate to

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context standard formal language and writing exist somewhere between surface

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ling dude and monocle wearing snobbery Boy answer be totally

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awesome is far too informal Although pretty cool Unless the

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student was recommending professor greenwald for a punk rock band

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this one wouldn't work You answer a quality stuff is

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a little less inappropriate but still a bit too informal

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It kind of sounds like something to bro's would tell

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each other after a workout Hey man Yeah totally quality

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stuff All right But the pendulum can also swing too

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Far in the other direction answer D takes the formality

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too far into the realm of over elevated speech After

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all professor greenwald isn't getting a knighthood here We need

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to scale the fanfare back of it Sorry answer C

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of the highest quality contains language with a formality appropriate

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for standard written english It's The correct choice now if

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we could only get everyone to communicate appropriately school bus

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believes would have a hard time if they had to

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properly conjugating pay attention the syntax before they pounded on 00:01:41.569 --> [endTime] your head

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