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ACT Aspire Reading: Summarizing Events
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Which of the following sentences provides the best description of the events in the passage?

ACT Aspire Reading: Recognizing Explicit Details
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Lucy runs to the edge of Kensington Gardens because...

ACT Aspire Reading: Understanding Sequence of Events
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Immediately before Lucy lays her hand on her father's knee, she was...

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ACT Aspire English: Punctuating Independent and Dependent Clauses 0 Views


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Choose the best alternative to the text below.
the world's oceans; but they tend


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All right Spyros were eight of twelve here making progress

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the world's oceans But they tend I'm looking at this

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the wrong way but let's think about it all right

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It's in paragraph three and we're gonna sit down here

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and take a look see All right great whites Apex

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predator though should food chain probably private graven seal seal

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on waller on humans and a great white charger widely

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distribute across the world's oceans But they tended the well

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relatively close to shore in temperate waters Not too cold

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Why Because well what jesse james rob banks the act

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that's where the money is and close in All right

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so here the semicolon divides to klaus is the first

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of which is a complete thought Okay And the second

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of which is not well since the second clause comes

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with a convenient conjunction there we could just replace the

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semicolon with common college Today is in right there Don't

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complicate things by replacing the butt right there Notice just

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one t in it with the less logical and while

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leaving the semicolon in places that you and b don't

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just shoehorning common between the two clauses without coordinating conjunction

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there That would be a comic supplies You had double

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boo on them see So that's it The answer is

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d just a common on a semicolon Don't get all 00:01:25.573 --> [endTime] up in yourself that way Yeah

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