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Formal vs. Informal tones can be tricky. This SAT Writing video tries to help you figure things out.


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00:02

Increasing its cooling caused by a lot Ok i see

00:04

the remote for his last one in this writing section

00:07

on all sci fi stuff Let's go find the paragraph

00:10

here It was last sends Successful They will know exactly

00:13

what you said at the electric lines without sacrificing point

00:14

performance increasing its cooling cost by a lot All right

00:19

people Well the essay isn't conversational One might even say

00:22

it's ah a bit dry work which morning yeah of

00:28

the choices listed the driest or most formal way to

00:31

say ah lot is significantly as is the senses grammatically

00:36

correct but the tone is suddenly ah lot or should

00:40

we say significantly more conversational that's why a doesn't work

00:43

you like comes out informally out of nowhere like your

00:45

debutante ball and you smack someone on the back and

00:49

tell a dirty joke right You don't do that well

00:51

the word significantly gets the tone back on track but

00:54

then supersizing brings the sentence right back to a conversational

00:58

level that makes ah lot sound sophisticated Get rid of

01:02

that like super sizing totally is the wrong tone plus

01:05

totally can also mean completely which confuses the meaning of

01:09

the whole sense How do you completely increase something it's

01:12

like super unique We like totally don't know you know

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all right Finally we're done We'll see you in the 00:01:18.422 --> [endTime] next section we hope if you're away lo way

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