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CAHSEE ELA 3.2 Writing Strategies. Which sentence does not relate to the main idea of paragraph 2?
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No And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by political cartoons like the one where mr crabs runs
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for president that we've had worse Best all right for
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you and and democratic baba blythe symbols All right Which
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sentence does not relate to the main idea of paragraph
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two paragraph two right here and here the potential answers
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for all right Well there's no need to hang our
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heads in shame if we don't remember the gist of
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paragraph two So we'll do a quick skin to refresh
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our brains that again All right great So this paragraph
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zeroes in on how the donkey became the symbol of
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the democratic party Anything that doesn't help us get across
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that idea has got to go waken Definitely next choice
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eh Right there This sentence is crucial because it gets
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the story started A republican candidate called his democratic opponent
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another word for a donkey and a political system was
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born Rhymes with smash us right Just imagine if he
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called him something weirder like oh i don't know foot
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fungus All right well how different history would be Well
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cross off choice Cia's Well it's important to know political
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cartoonist thomas nast was the guy who made the democratic
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donkey stick in the popular imagination Like when gun gets
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in our hair we'll need scissors to get it out
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now Choices b and e are the only ones left
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standing tour in a hot debate with de claiming everything
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is grey with paragraph and be accusing sentence five of
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dragging the whole paragraph into the muck What will the
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talking hands up to say about this one Well after
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much deliberation we have decided to cast our vote choice
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B It isn't totally necessary to know that the democratic
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candidate was amused by the donkey smear If we just
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say the words donkey smear who gross it's our pledge
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to you that we shall never do so again No
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