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CAHSEE 4.2 Passage Drill 167 Views
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CAHSEE 4.2 Passage Drill. Which best describes the relationship between Paulina and Shamraeff?
Transcript
- 00:00
Sorry And here's your smoke du jour Brought to you
- 00:05
by russian names We give you an example but when
- 00:08
we'd probably mispronounce it and we do that a lot
- 00:11
I checked the following passage It's a long one Arkadina
- 00:15
sham refs are in and then they go on and
Full Transcript
- 00:18
on And nina pollina turned his hands like just a
- 00:21
freaking russian So proper here Maybe you and they're going
- 00:25
on on my gun All right just give it Here
- 00:30
we go Which best describes the relationship between polina and
- 00:33
sham Raph Yeah well and hear the potential answers Okay
- 00:38
well fun Well it's A little hard to keep all
- 00:43
these people straight Russian names don't help much And there's
- 00:46
a herd of character stampeding through this very short scene
- 00:49
So let's give the segment in close read zeroing in
- 00:51
on the polina sham raph side of things All the
- 00:54
tabloids are close read just dug up a scandal Well
- 00:58
despite all this sort of sad flirting going on between
- 01:00
dorn and paulina we find that pauline is actually married
- 01:03
to shamrock How do we know Dorn says the polina
- 01:07
your husband deserves to be thrown out of here and
- 01:09
then paulina spends a bunch time complaining about shamar If
- 01:12
her husband all this complaining about the guy is also
- 01:15
a good sign that they're married trust us we know
- 01:18
now we've got that figured out The rest of this
- 01:20
is a breeze so choices and know if shamrock married
- 01:23
his daughter that would be choice is a big noah's
- 01:26
Well it's also not so cool for a guy to
- 01:28
mary's mom Equally gross take it from ed ipass not
- 01:32
as glamorous as it sounds and it's not that girl's
- 01:34
for somebody to marry their employees unless they're like a
- 01:37
billion years younger than them And even then like well
- 01:40
who are we to judge joyce he gets the answer
- 01:42
right Paulina is shamrocks white though when shamrock finds out
- 01:45
about this whole adultery thing well it might not last 00:01:48.548 --> [endTime] too long over
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