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ACT Aspire English: Putting Sentences in a Logical Order
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Which of the following would be the most logical order of sentences in Paragraph 2?

Revising the Order of Sentences
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Which of the following would be the most logical order of sentences in Paragraph 4?

ACT Aspire English: Where Should the Author Add a New Sentence?
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Suppose the author wants to add the following sentence to the passage: Artists still record music and people still buy music, but not in traditiona...

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ACT Aspire English: Choosing the Most Effective Transition 0 Views


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All right a c t shmoop er's six to twelve

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coming at you here Furthermore right there in paragraph three

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In psychology terminology genetics refers to the combination of genes

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that one inherits from his or her parents Further mohr

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environment consists of all of the external influences and experiences

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that one has had since birth That sounds really kind

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of weird Furthermore it's not extending the thought Well this

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paragraph explains what genetics and environment means in you know

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psycho lingo psychology lingo Someone got transition further More like

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a suggest that what follows is something additional that relates

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to what was previously explained But the other is actually

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trying to transition away from explaining genetics to environment which

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is an entirely different concept So loops genetic and environment

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aren't similar But the transition similarly incorrectly suggests that they

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are so just get her to see it again We

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need to avoid a transition that suggest that what follows

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ads on two previous information so will discard in addition

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as well as indeed On the other hand right there

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see that the right one sets up the relationship between

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the two concepts nicely Two concepts are different but related

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for the purposes of this passage so it should read

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On the other hand environment consists of all the external

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influences you together so that's it It's big more shmoop

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