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PSAT 1.1 Writing Diagnostic. How should the underlined portion be changed in the passage, if at all?

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PSAT 1.17 Writing Narrative Walkthrough. How would you change the underlined portion, if at all?


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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by money laundering As innocent as it

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makes sound This is not something you want to get

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at all involved with Trust us It would take more

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than stain remover to get that expunged from your record

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All right check out this passage on the holding financial

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institutions in the banking rules And how would you change

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the underline portion below If it all he could gain

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access to the banking system in directly Alright here the

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potential answers change all ready for a game of pronoun

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musical chairs He it they and banks take your places

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and round and round they go where it stops nobody

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knows Well that was unfortunate So all we've got here

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are four options that differ by a single word By

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reading the rest of the sentence Hopefully we can figure

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out what we're supposed to be plugging in here So

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let's take another look at it However fraudsters figured out

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that through a middle men called a third party payment

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processor he could gain access to the banking system in

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directly well take notes of those kamas they're not there

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For decoration akamas air being used to separate the claws

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through ah middleman called ah third party payment processor But

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if we remove that klaus the sentence should still read

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ok and make a bit of sense However fraudsters figured

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out that he could gain access to the banking system

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in directly no it's the fraudsters who are trying to

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gain access meaning we're talking about multiple people which is

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not covered by the pronoun he so we're definitely going

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to need a change of scenery in this instance Option

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b it isn't any better It is a singular pronoun

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which would be fine if there was just a single

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fraudster and that fraudster was an inanimate object But neither

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is the case so it can hit the road Jack

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option d at least gets the plural thing right But

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it's going with the word banks and it's fraudsters not

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the banks who are trying to gain access as if

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anyone could ever confuse bankers with fraudsters Don't mind us

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gentlemen we're just passing through and go about your business

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Okay well the correct answer is c they that's the

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plural pronoun we're looking for and it will fit nicely

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With our antis eden fraudsters are they still all unconscious

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That's A shame We were just going to get a 00:02:22.26 --> [endTime] game of duck duck goose going barry

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