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Texas EOC English 2: 1.2 Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts
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Texas EOC English 2: Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts Drill 2, Problem 3

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour Brought to you by the environmental protection agency You

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should see the one The environmental destruction agency said Not

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a good smoking Sure That day All right check the

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following passage You know basic information about estuaries times we

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read this fresh water and make your transition very incomparably

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son Open one understanding beaches All right The purpose of

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the passengers a hole is tio What other than confuse

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you And here the potential answers are defining providing defining

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our offering You could describe tio All right Well the

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title of the passages basic information about estuaries which tells

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us that our passage will include a description of the

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key features of estuaries shocking and wait actually that's it

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which means we can eliminate eh yes estuaries air defined

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But the passage doesn't specifically say that anybody auto protect

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him So even though we might infer that the epa

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might be trying teo well protect the environment this particular

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passage isn't blatantly going for that answer B isn't right

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either Provide specific example of estuaries in their characteristics huh

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Well different types of estuaries like salt marshes are listed

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In the passage way don't hear anything about their characteristics

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though which faster did be read option d is off

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track to offering an alternative perspective on estuarine environment Well

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this passage is purely informational so it can't really be

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offering an alternative perspective unless there's some other perspective that

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we don't know about Maybe others think that estuaries aren't

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really environments where salt water mixes with fresh What do

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you think Maybe others think escalators are places where salt

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water mixes with some taffy Yeah whatever It doesn't matter

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what others think we gotta focus on this passage in

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this one alone choice He gets it right to find

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and described the key features of estuaries There we go

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like we said this article is titled basic information about

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estuaries and it delivers what it promises Unlike that slack

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pizza guy in our hood you know you should show 00:02:09.27 --> [endTime] up on time

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