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Description:
The word "nevertheless" is usually a very useful word in essay-writing. Watch this SAT Writing video on The Treasury's Beginnings to see whether it should be used in this case.
Transcript
- 00:02
Okay writing shmoop furs were closing in on the end
- 00:05
here eight of eleven in the last legs Nevertheless Okay
- 00:12
so nevertheless let's go find it here I'm sitio last
- 00:15
paragraph there so we got to go up to beginning
- 00:17
to paragraph Despite the infusion of foreign domestic loans baby
Full Transcript
- 00:20
revolutionary war you establish a well organizations they were financial
- 00:23
administration treasury office reorganize three time and effort to improve
- 00:27
the system Nevertheless the two hundred forty one point five
- 00:30
million dollars of paper continental dollars were quickly becoming devalued
- 00:35
You think about that We're multi trillions of dollars today
- 00:38
and back then while the world yet was smaller Ok
- 00:41
so well let's think about this What's the right answer
- 00:44
Yeah never less doesn't really fit does it This paragraphs
- 00:47
about the treasury offices woes in its early days every
- 00:51
sentence gives mohr insight into issues that were happening in
- 00:54
the same span of years Everything's contiguous timewise it's like
- 00:58
they're jumping back and forth from the modern era to
- 01:01
the past Right The best conjunction then is one that
- 01:04
signals that all this stuff was happening contemporaneously Aii at
- 01:08
the same time So the answer is b meanwhile well
- 01:12
loser bowl nevertheless a right there is a conjunction that
- 01:16
suggests that contrast right That's how they originally wrote It
- 01:19
it would work only if what followed contradicted what came
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before which is not the case The same is true
- 01:25
for still See right there for example d is best
- 01:28
used when starting a sense that's an example of something
- 01:31
mentioned you know in the previous sense or something devaluation
- 01:35
isn't an example of office reorg it's just sad Nevertheless
- 01:40
we've got three more here and then we're done with 00:01:43.139 --> [endTime] this whole puppy
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