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AP English Language and Composition 4.2 Passage Drill
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AP English Language and Composition 4.2 Passage Drill. Which of the following lines provides the most unity to the passage?

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AP English Language and Composition 5.4 Passage Drill. The first paragraph implies that "the particular sciences" what?

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AP English Language and Composition 6.10 Passage Drill. What significance does the title of the article have to the reading?

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AP English Language: The Truth, The Whole Truth, Nothing But The Truth 6 Views


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All of the following are true of this passage EXCEPT


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Okay Ap england people here we go Next question All

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of the following are true of this passage except what

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Well what's most noticeable is that there doesn't seem to

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be anyone Thesis statement In fact the whole first paragraph

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well kind of is the thesis right Let's think about

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this Overall there's a nice tight structure to this passage

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It's about the history and not the art of fashion

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So get rid of sea right off the bat It's

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organized chronologically Get rid of be in it does a

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great job of looking at all sorts of different groups

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in america So get rid of e checking off everything

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on this list Well we noticed something odd The passage

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doesn't have a conclusion so we're going to get rid

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of a it seems toe end in the nineties with

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really no conclusive statement It all really That's ok Maybe

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the exam writer just didn't include the conclusion There's no

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way we could get away with that in an essay

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section about playing cool if it does happen on the

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test Right So the answer here is d The thesis

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is presented in the first paragraph Yeah that's except part 00:01:05.933 --> [endTime] So that's it

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