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Learn about effective language use from austronauts that like hoarding moon rocks in this SAT writing drill!
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This SAT Writing video on The Treasury's beginnigs asks you to figure out how to maintain the logical flow of a paragraph. It's not as complicated as it sounds, we promise.
Transcript
- 00:03
Okay Essay writing shmoop er's Just two more and then
- 00:06
we're done with this awesome exercise to maintain a logical
- 00:11
flow of the paragraph Where should sentence four be placed
- 00:15
All right logical flow So sentence for let's Go find
- 00:18
that thing One two three and four Well let's think
Full Transcript
- 00:24
about this The information in this paragraph moves in rough
- 00:27
chronological order Right Therefore it's best to have the information
- 00:31
about may seventeen eighty one come after the information about
- 00:34
seventeen Seventy eight in sentence for the dollars devaluation problem
- 00:38
from sentenced three gets worse It makes sense to have
- 00:41
sentenced for this hunk right here with all its devaluing
- 00:45
dollar related woes come right after sentence three Yeah Alright
- 00:49
Loser bowl here A collapse Sounds like a pretty big
- 00:51
deal And it is And we can infer from the
- 00:53
collapsed dollar that financial administration probably wasn't going so well
- 00:58
You know hamilton where are you So moving sentence for
- 01:00
the beginning the paragraph would make sentence one redundant repetitive
- 01:04
saying the same thing again and again You will be
- 01:06
sent in three and four Both tell us the dollar
- 01:08
was losing value with sent three stating the fact was
- 01:11
an ongoing process and sentenced for giving us a specific
- 01:14
date on which the dollars collapse was in full swing
- 01:17
But with this kind of information makes the most sense
- 01:19
To move from the general to the specific right Put
- 01:22
the information about the general problem of devaluation first and
- 01:26
follow it with the more specific problem of the collapse
- 01:29
of the dollar So i get to see there Finally
- 01:31
it helps to know why the americans were pro testing
- 01:34
before knowing that they were pro testing Yeah sort of 00:01:37.853 --> [endTime] like most college campuses these days
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