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What's the whole essay about? How does time control or matter to the essay as a whole?
SAT Writing & Language: Sentence Transitions at the Beginning of an Essay 16 Views
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What's the whole essay about? How does time control or matter to the essay as a whole?
Transcript
- 00:02
all right people we're starting the SAT
- 00:05
writing section of our SAT prep [Woman writing on school desk]
- 00:08
lucky you yeah here we go so we got 11
- 00:11
of these bad boys and for each question
- 00:13
you're gonna choose the answer that best
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- 00:15
improves the writing quality or makes
- 00:17
the writing adhere to standard written
- 00:19
English conventions no Klingon from you
- 00:23
Bob in the back there some questions
- 00:25
include a no change choice and that's
- 00:27
just fine if it's perfect the way it is
- 00:29
so let's start by just kind of skimming
- 00:31
this thing so we kind of get a sense for
- 00:35
what they're doing here... [mumbling sped up]
- 00:41
all right we're just gonna skip down to
- 00:43
the question....
- 00:44
Advanced composites
- 00:48
such as carbon fiber are three times as
- 00:50
strong in twice as light as the lightest
- 00:52
metals currently they're used for
- 00:54
expensive applications like satellites [Man opens car door]
- 00:56
and luxury cars the first paragraph sets
- 00:59
up the rest of the essay which is about
- 01:00
a new Institute working on advanced
- 01:02
composite whoo-hoo we're gonna need some
- 01:05
context before we can care about these [Man browsing through book shelf]
- 01:07
materials however the sentence that
- 01:09
begins with currently tells us what's
- 01:12
going on now right now in the world of
- 01:14
advanced composites but be there read
- 01:17
suggest a contrast there's no contrast
- 01:19
nevertheless and though also implies
- 01:21
some kind of opposition and it's not [Although and nevertheless wrestling]
- 01:23
really like they're in that kind of
- 01:24
fragmented and we really don't like
- 01:26
fragments so that's it it looks like
- 01:29
it's no change and yes the answer is a
- 01:31
no change sort of like when you buy a
- 01:34
hot dog from a street vendor and [5 dollar bill switching hands]
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