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ACT Aspire English: Putting Sentences in a Logical Order
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Which of the following would be the most logical order of sentences in Paragraph 2?

Revising the Order of Sentences
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Which of the following would be the most logical order of sentences in Paragraph 4?

ACT Aspire English: Improving a Paragraph by Adding Details
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The author wants to add the following sentence to the passage: Record companies had a great deal of control over an artist's career because, among...

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ACT Aspire English: Using the Most Precise Language 0 Views


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Choose the best alternative to the text below.
may seem like a ton


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All right spyros were on ten of twelve Down May

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seem like a ton All right that's right there That's

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our focus We're going to go down to paragraph four

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skipping all this craft Find writing on top Okay here

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we go Since the year fifteen eighty there have been

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two hundred seventy two confirmed attacks by great white sharks

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on humans That may seem like a ton but when

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we consider that millions of people under the ocean every

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year for recreational purposes it is minuscule in comparison Look

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terrible writing terrible ground Well let's think about this The

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phrase in question actually refers to the number two seventy

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two not to the attacks themselves He had weird That

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is since we're talking about a number has compared with

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another number like millions Well we'll need to use language

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that reflects that fact A ton is inaccurate because it

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means two thousand when its weight like how much do

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the people way who were attacked Maybe maybe that would

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work were actually adding up the body weights Of all

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the people who did that they all weighed What would

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that be like Nine pounds Yeah that wouldn't work either

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So it's a lot of attacks It's that's wrong and

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huge There seems to refer to two hundred seventy two

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is a number but huge is too imprecise And thankfully

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one answer choice actually for us to two hundred seventy

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was a large number So it's the most effective description

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here right Though it should read That may seem like

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a large number but when we consider that millions of

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people into the ocean every year for recreational purposes yeah

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okay so that's it It's b and we're done

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