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ACT Aspire English: It's All in the Past (Tense)
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predator, it is at the top


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Okay Aspiring t test taker people Here we go Six

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of twelve predator It is at the top right there

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That's the focus We're going to go all the way

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down paragraph three and just skipping over one into because

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we just did them All right here we go The

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great white is an apex predator comma It is at

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the top of the ocean food chain Okay well we

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got problems here is well Is another case of the

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old comma slice And since all of the answer choices

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include akama looks like we're stuck with this structure The

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use of and right there to connect two parts of

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send suggests that apex predator and being at the top

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of the food chain are somehow separate even though the

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second part of the sentence explains that the term apex

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predator in fact means that the predator is at the

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top of the food chain right Well if we say

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that the great white is an apex predator because it

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is at the top of the food chain we indicate

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causation when all we need's an explanation of the term

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So you get rid of d there which means gives

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us that explanation So it's b and then the sentence

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reads like this The great white is an apex predator

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comma which means it is at the top of the

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ocean food chain That's it way simpler and well we're

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not Let's go find seal to chew out here

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