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AP English Language and Composition 2.5 Passage Drill 191 Views


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AP English Language and Composition 2.5 Passage Drill. The footnotes most clarify which of the following topics?

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Sorry and here's your smug du jour brought to you

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by monarchs Without them there would be well on our

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way All right check the following passage If you haven't

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rave like humpy time The footnotes most clarify which of

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the following topics and hear the potential answers Wait a

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minute You mean we actually have to pay attention All

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that stuff in the italics at the end we thought

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this was just decoration Sorry Well if you see footnotes

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after a passenger on the test you can bet there's

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going to be at least one question about on a

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hand Well here it is It's Go time questions asking

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what is most clarified by the footnote Not just what's

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mentioned there So we need to be on the lookout

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for something that brings new information to light or helps

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us understand a concept a little better Is it a

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noble and gentry's ultimate motives for aligning with the king

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Well footnote number two addresses this point but the passage

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already made it pretty clear So no it's not a

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be explicit charges the parliament followers made against the king

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and speaker already did a bang up job covering the

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accusations made against the king Oh no need to beat

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up on him Even more in the foot aren't d

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the restrictions religious differences placed on military strategy's Well no

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no mention of this in the footnotes Little red herring

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e the pre existing animosity between the king And several

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houses All right well we already picked up on that

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tension in the passage We get it The king in

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the houses aren't best buds no sleepovers in the castle

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got it It means our answer is c the overriding

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reason the king accepted the catholics onto his side Yeah

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pasin says The king incorporated the catholics among his own

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forces but then sort of trails off and that's where

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footnote number five steps up to the plate it explains

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in his own words the king's reasoning will see is 00:02:06.33 --> [endTime] our answer Oh one last footnote

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