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here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by ice cream trucks they were almost [Ice cream truck drives by]

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a perfect invention I take a look at this sentence Jamie my 16 year old

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cousin pushed several small children over to be first in line for ice cream

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sounds like a real charmer so what can you infer from the sims and hear your

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potential answers run fast well so when we ask someone to make an inference [Man appears at bus stop]

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about a text we're asking them to look at the evidence given to them in the

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text then make an educated guess it's sort of like pretending you're Sherlock [Man inspecting a vase of flowers]

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Holmes just like none of the fun adventure parts.. well we've got a few

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options so let's say which one lines up as for the tech start with a Jamie likes

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to run fast so that's where the right answer there need to be some mention the

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deck of Jamie running no there isn't surely he clearly did some pushing but [Boy running on a beach and boy pushing wheelbarrow]

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that we can tell you from the time we went to the Summer Olympics pushing is

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definitely not the same thing as running if it were we'd have at least 12 gold [Man and woman running in the hills]

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medals by now yeah so is that what about see Jamie hasn't had ice cream in a long

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time well again for this to be right we need some indication from the text that [Jamie given ice cream cone]

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it had been a while since Jamie had ice cream but there's no evidence of that

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for all we know ding to finish the big gold ice cream court he got all pushy so [Jamie on couch with bowl of ice cream]

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he is going to how about D Jamie's really strong well there's some evidence

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of Jamie strength the text clearly shows that he pushed several small children

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over but let's keep things in perspective the text also mentions a

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Jamie the teenager if your teenager you don't exactly have to be a champion

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weightlifter to push over a bunch of kids though D is out we have any luck

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would be Jamie is a selfish person and now we're getting somewhere

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the text not only tells us that Jamie did a lot of pushing but it also gives [Jamie pushing kids]

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us the reason why namely so he could be first in line for ice cream not much of

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a lead to infer that Jamie is a pretty selfish dude so B is our answer and we

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didn't even need to push any small children over to get it and just word to

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the wise if you find that you are pushing over small children when [Jamie pushes over child in classroom]

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completing multiple-choice questions and you're probably doing it wrong

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you

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