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SAT Writing and Language Drill 8.2 Conventions of Usage 2 Views
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Watch this SAT Writing video on The Treasury's Beginnings for some practice with words like "neither" and "nor".
Transcript
- 00:03
You okay Essay writing shmoop er's Here we go Second
- 00:06
series of eleven and neither wass that's it we're analyzing
- 00:11
here and let's go down here Ground work for the
- 00:13
department treasures laid during the turmoil blah blah blah that
- 00:16
congress had no power to levy and collect taxes and
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- 00:20
neither was their tangible basis for securing funds from foreign
- 00:23
investors or government's Tangible basis for securing funds like a
- 00:27
global banking system would be one of those right Well
- 00:31
let's think about this when one negative follows another We
- 00:34
use the conjunction nor like neither bob nor susie could
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dance or could globally trade currencies you can figure out
- 00:42
if nor is the right conjunction by checking whether neither
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works here in the first part of the sentence the
- 00:48
congress had neither the power to levy and collect taxes
- 00:52
Nor was there a tangible basis So yeah that sounds
- 00:55
pretty good It works so be nor was alright moving
- 00:59
down to the loserville round Neither here yeah doesn't show
- 01:02
up on its own in a sentence with more than
- 01:03
one negative statement Like this one get rid of using
- 01:06
the word or makes the second half of the sentence
- 01:09
Sound like a question So that's just kind of weird
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but nor sounds like a disease from sitting on something
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Goopy it's a negative overkill and a conjunction overkill and
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one conjunction is enough and one of those but nor
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diseases that would probably enough to sell We're just moving 00:01:25.276 --> [endTime] on Answers be nor wass
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