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This SAT Writing video asks you to figure out which sentence most effectively conveys the main idea. You know you want to click play.


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Okay next one we're on three of eleven Question Which

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topic since most effectively conveys the main idea of the

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second paragraph Second planning is a relatively new field All

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right let's go back teo paragraph to hear and see

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where it contextually lives There we go We're planning a

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relatively new field They work alongside law officials and leading

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members But in fact in a golden age because everybody

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voted first gets off the planet to reconcile ideas researching

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analysis of the ability to sense today in collaboration with

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plans for a competing project proposal for long term plans

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The paragraph focuses on the idea that urban planners deal

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with a lot of different people who have a lot

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of different goals The best sentenced open The paragraph is

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one that states something along those lines Yeah so it's

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be planners must balance competing interests when completing a project

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Right Like some guys want the basketball courts Um guys

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want the cigar smoking again Others want the chess club

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to be pre eminent Well as is the first sentence

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a mix the reader expect to paragraph about the advent

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of urban planning So that's false advertising It's true that

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planners work with community groups to complete projects that doesn't

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address the other groups or the other potential conflicts between

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them Finally urban planning does involve project but that's pretty

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dull and on specific topic sentence and kind of makes 00:01:17.556 --> [endTime] us yawn even wider Yes all right we're done

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