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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...

ACT Aspire English: Identifying Effective Closing Sentences
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Which of the following sentences, if added by the author to the end of Paragraph 3, would serve to close that paragraph most effectively?

ACT Aspire English: Which Sentence Closes a Paragraph Effectively?
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The author wants to add a sentence to help conclude Paragraph 4. Which sentence would be the most effective choice?

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ACT Aspire English: Choosing the Strongest Conjunction 2 Views


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Choose the best alternative to the text below.
Despite that


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Okay Aspiring people were on three of twelve And we're

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still in paragraph one for james meredith civil rights hero

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And we're focused on despite that right there And then

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let's just skim down to it in the paragraph one

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here today Many people never know what can happen in

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a birmingham jail in germany And heroes same friend that

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i'm playing the silver's here Just want ten college An

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african merriment Certainly It's reeling from that flight Your admission

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to the university of mississippi in nineteen sixty one Despite

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that the supreme court had in nineteen fifty four found

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racial segregation in schools to be unconstitutional In practice most

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schools in the south were still segregated Terrible sentence terrible

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era to all right Well let's think about this The

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two parts of this sense are in opposition to one

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another writes The supreme court had ruled that segregation was

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unconstitutional years earlier but education was still very much segregated

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in practice that people were not following the law for

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better or worse And yes you can match that to

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immigration and some of the other thing where there's a

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division there So we can tell that this is going

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to be one of those passages that tears us down

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before building us back up anyway despite that is in

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a is lacking something a big thing despite the fact

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that well that would have worked But we're missing the

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pb and j The fact in that particular word sandwich

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however as in see right there usually suggests that the

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sense is a contradiction to a previous one which we

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don't have here While because indeed makes it sound as

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though the first part of the sentence explains the second

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part which is clearly not the case So although is

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the right answer is b although is the only answer

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that creates the right relationship between the two parts of

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the sentence So it would read Although the supreme court

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had in nineteen fifty four found racial segregation in schools

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to be unconstitutional In practice most schools in the south

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were still segregated so that's it It's b and we're 00:02:13.016 --> [endTime] done

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