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Learn about effective language use from austronauts that like hoarding moon rocks in this SAT writing drill!
What's the whole essay about? How does time control or matter to the essay as a whole?
This SAT Writing videos goes over when to keep or ditch an extra sentence.
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Description:
In this SAT Writing video a tired chief executive returns to his quarters to enjoy a peaceful dinner alone. Should we keep that lonely sentence?
Transcript
- 00:02
All right smokers This is it Last one of the
- 00:04
washingtonian siri's the author is considering adding the following sense
- 00:07
after the last sense of the show The sense So
- 00:09
following the address in a church service the tiger chief
- 00:11
executive returns to his quarters to enjoy a peaceful dinner
Full Transcript
- 00:13
alone All right well what do you think she would
- 00:17
keep it It kind of adds a lot there's something
- 00:19
you know kind of hauntingly echoey ish about it right
- 00:23
And if you were hungry while reading this essay well
- 00:25
you probably noticed that washington was eating breakfast at the
- 00:28
beginning and in the middle he was eating lunch here's
- 00:31
dinner neatly placed in a sentence that continues not only
- 00:34
with the meals pattern but also with the solitude theme
- 00:37
So it adds a lot and sure it's nice to
- 00:40
know what washington did next but what he did leading
- 00:43
you know it isn't actually all that important per se
- 00:46
it's more a style choice here than a substance One
- 00:49
the sentence before c is about congress in this piece
- 00:52
is about washington so it's more appropriate toe end with
- 00:55
a sentence That's just about him eating in solitude have
- 00:58
been recurring theme so well This sentence doesn't introduce anything
- 01:02
that we haven't seen before anyway so yeah so we're
- 01:05
keeping it and echoes the mentions of breakfast and lunch 00:01:09.41 --> [endTime] all right
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