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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.


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Okay writing shmoop furs were closing in on the end

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here eight of eleven in the last legs Nevertheless Okay

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so nevertheless let's go find it here I'm sitio last

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paragraph there so we got to go up to beginning

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to paragraph Despite the infusion of foreign domestic loans baby

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revolutionary war you establish a well organizations they were financial

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administration treasury office reorganize three time and effort to improve

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the system Nevertheless the two hundred forty one point five

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million dollars of paper continental dollars were quickly becoming devalued

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You think about that We're multi trillions of dollars today

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and back then while the world yet was smaller Ok

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so well let's think about this What's the right answer

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Yeah never less doesn't really fit does it This paragraphs

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about the treasury offices woes in its early days every

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sentence gives mohr insight into issues that were happening in

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the same span of years Everything's contiguous timewise it's like

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they're jumping back and forth from the modern era to

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the past Right The best conjunction then is one that

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signals that all this stuff was happening contemporaneously Aii at

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the same time So the answer is b meanwhile well

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loser bowl nevertheless a right there is a conjunction that

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suggests that contrast right That's how they originally wrote It

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it would work only if what followed contradicted what came

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before which is not the case The same is true

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for still See right there for example d is best

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used when starting a sense that's an example of something

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mentioned you know in the previous sense or something devaluation

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isn't an example of office reorg it's just sad Nevertheless

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we've got three more here and then we're done with 00:01:43.139 --> [endTime] this whole puppy

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