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What was the Treasury Office of Accounts comprised of? Watch this SAT Writing video on the Treasury's Beginnings for the answer...while also getting a chance to practice your writing skills of course.
Transcript
- 00:03
Okay Writing shmoop er's Here we go We're on six
- 00:06
of eleven here and keep let's Go find that puppy
- 00:11
you were looking for and keep All right Here we
- 00:13
go Right on april fool's day treasury office of accounts
- 00:17
a comprising an auditor general and clerk say we just
Full Transcript
- 00:20
fix that error before was established to facilitate the settlement
- 00:24
of claims and keep the public accounts for the government
- 00:27
of the united colonies All right And keep well let's
- 00:31
see uh bad is a good sound Awful let's Think
- 00:35
here Well we have tohave parallel structure and we're looking
- 00:39
at the other options and this too right there And
- 00:42
to keep helps because he got to maintain parallel structure
- 00:45
and verbs While this sentence needs the infinitive verb to
- 00:49
keep that infinitive parallels then the first infinitive to facilitate
- 00:54
the right They're very very subtle very tricky All right
- 00:56
well the right answer then is d and to keep
- 00:59
while it may sound all right in conversation you know
- 01:01
from up this one would have passed the sentence as
- 01:03
is lacks the parallel structure required in sentences that list
- 01:07
verb clauses If the first verb analyst is an inf
- 01:09
definitive like begins with two whatever Like two shmoop that's
- 01:13
An infinitive even if the list is just two items
- 01:16
long while all the rest of the verbs must also
- 01:18
be infinitives Yeah well that rules out adverb conjugated in
- 01:22
the present progressive like keeping something lucy as well as
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a verb in the past tense like kept so goodbye 00:01:28.528 --> [endTime] be and well let's Just keep on going
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