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Hurry and here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by stress when you wake up screaming and realize you

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haven't been to sleep yet Yeah we've been there All

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right Checking the following passage All right Which of the

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following would be the most precise way of restating Sentence

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six and hear the potential answer All right the main

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word we should pay attention to in this question is

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precise When we look at sentence six we need to

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ask ourselves if it says exactly what it means Is

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the author's saying that everything was actually still well let's

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hope not if everything was still then that would mean

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that everybody on earth would freeze in place the wind

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would cease and every planet would stop orbiting How much

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more boring could one universe git unless the other is

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trying to write a scifi novel and didn't tell anybody

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Well we're sure that she didn't literally mean everything was

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still in general We should avoid the word everything in

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our writing since it tends to be a shortcut to

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a vague city Yeah right there All that said we're

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now sure that we can cut choice d which is

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apparently okay with vagueness choice isn't a whole lot better

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We've now narrowed things down from everything there is to

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the whole world it's step in the right direction but

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sometimes that's just not enough until dr horrible perfects his

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freeze ray the whole world isn't going to stand still

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Well choice b does zoom in a bit more about

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it's Not exactly accurate Well that was a zoom According

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to the narrator the insects and frogs are still a

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cz well so it's not just the landscape that's taken

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a break Imagine the size of the cup of coffee

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the whole landscape would need on a break All right

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well even though choice sea is pretty general it's the

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best answer because it's the most precise from our narrators

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perspective Everything in the immediate vicinity of the girl stand

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still for a moment it's like she's playing a massive

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game of red light green light And if only most 00:02:01.478 --> [endTime] drivers knew how to play

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