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All right Shmoopers this is question 7/11 - the conveniece question. Get it? Like the 7-Eleven convenience store. While we crack ourselves up, watch this SAT Writing video on The Treasury's Beginnings.
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- 00:03
All right Writing shmoop furs Here we go Seven of
- 00:06
eleven The convenience question to get money from other places
- 00:12
Okay so here we go It's the last one in
- 00:14
this paragraph here's the sentence with the signing of the
- 00:17
declaration of independence on july fourth seventeen seventy six the
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- 00:21
newborn recently i po'd republic was able to get money
- 00:26
from other places as a sovereign nation so they borrowed
- 00:31
money from the french based that's It that's killing us
- 00:33
So let's think about this This essay is a fairly
- 00:36
formal with its language and specific with its details The
- 00:40
phrase that most closely matches the tone of the rest
- 00:43
of the essay is the one with a fancy word
- 00:46
for gitt which is secure and the fancy word for
- 00:50
other places which is abroad to secure loans from abroad
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That kind of fits the huffy stuffy tone here right
- 00:58
First version would've been just fine schmuck but no that's
- 01:01
not right for this essay as is well the phrase
- 01:04
is much more vague than the lines around it which
- 01:07
use more specific technical language And you may not know
- 01:09
much about how currency works but you probably do know
- 01:12
That most other countries have their own currency So it
- 01:15
neither makes sense Nor does it fit tonally for the
- 01:17
us to get dollars from other places or other countries
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Although in our financial success and the two centuries that
- 01:24
followed all this a lot of people do use The
- 01:25
us dollar is their currency peg but that's a whole
- 01:28
different story anyway Bottom line answers the two secure loans 00:01:32.522 --> [endTime] from abroad
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