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Was a carriage formal or informal transportation? Watch this SAT Writing video to find out.
Transcript
- 00:02
All right jumpers Question four of eleven Here we go
- 00:04
This one's so brief is breath the big carriage and
- 00:08
we're going to edit it So let's find it in
- 00:09
the story here So we're down here in paragraph to
- 00:12
find horses Got washington green four hundred forty hundred clinging
Full Transcript
- 00:15
to be carried a comma which only occupied so well
- 00:20
what do we do here What The tone of the
- 00:22
passage isn't overly formal but it's not informally there it's
- 00:26
kind of down the middle the fairway there The passage
- 00:27
emphasizes the grandeur of the occasion which is best highlighted
- 00:32
by describing the carriage as stately both big and enormous
- 00:37
are well too vague and info formal to fit in
- 00:39
with the rest of the stone Be hard for the
- 00:41
carriage to be crowded since washington was the only one
- 00:44
in it wasn't that big dude right so in this
- 00:47
passage of the upgrade would be thus stately carriage right
- 00:51
and that's kind of a thing in these essays Notice
- 00:53
how they first had the word vig in there and
- 00:55
they're asking you to upgrade with the more five dollar
- 00:58
words stately So when in doubt most the time you're
- 01:01
going to want to upgrade to the fancy word instead
- 01:03
of the overly simplistic just big because they're kind of
- 01:07
testing you on your vocab among other things here so 00:01:09.756 --> [endTime] that's it it's stately not just big
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