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PSAT 1.3 Writing Diagnostic. To make the paragraph most logical, sentence 2 in the second paragraph should be placed...where?
PSAT 1.4 Writing Diagnostic. Which choice most effectively combines the two sentences in the underlined portion?
PSAT 1.5 Writing Diagnostic. How should the underlined portion be changed in the passage, if at all?
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PSAT 1.16 Writing Narrative Walkthrough. How would you change the underlined portion, if at all?
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Sorry then here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by baboons If you've ever wondered what motivated monkeys to
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evolve it's probably because one of these guys looked in
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the mirror sorry and check out this passage on a
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born bad news Bananas have appeal How would you change
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the underlined portion below if at all conditions they faced
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in infancy And here the potential answers Okay so this
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is excerpted from something called bad news for baboons This
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doesn't have anything to do with their careless derrieres does
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it All right there are children around Can't you put
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a bandage and some gauze on that thing All right
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So according to this excerpt anyway the bad news is
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that baboon population is taking a nosedive thanks to a
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bad drought considering the drought california's been dealing with it
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makes you wonder if that's why we don't see more
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baboons in hollywood way Take that back The question wants
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to know how we should write the last sentence Researchers
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looked at how conditions they faced in infancy played a
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role in coping with the drought wealth we know that
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they hear is in reference to the baboons We owe
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you one context clues but the way this sense is
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structured it makes it sound as if it's the researchers
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whose conditions were focused on here Fortunately the researcher population
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is healthy and thriving So we can move along is
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not our guy Or what about see their infant conditions
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Yeah same issue There's Still nothing in this sentence to
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indicate that we're talking about what the baboons had to
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deal with in their infancy The researchers might have had
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some rough childhoods but we're not really here to play
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Psychiatrist soc is out Next up the the infant baboons
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Ah here is that mention of baboons we were looking
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for Unfortunately we doubt that older baboons are relying on
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a crack team of baby baboons with extensive drought experience
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to get them through the tough times This phrase still
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isn't quite saying what we needed to so d is
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out as well and here we go b b suggests
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that we change that part too Conditions the baboons faced
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in infancy Yep it's The conditions they faced and struggled
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through that prepared them for later tribulations So b is
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the one Sadly nothing can prepare them for catching a 00:02:14.45 --> [endTime] glimpse of their face in a rain puddle
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