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In this SAT Writing video on The Well-Rounded Curriculum, the word "Instead" is analyzed. How exciting is that eh?!


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Okay estate each member's next up four of eleven right

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here instead of just one word that that working for

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you not really working for us It's right down here

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paragraph starts with from thomas jefferson on we're leaving We've

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been talking about going for anything before we got on

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a prison everyone's at every local bookseller instead washington did

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not recount the recent triumphs over the british gas for

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books instead because he wrote to encourage literature and art

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is a duty which every good citizen owes to his

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country Well the beginning of this sentence needs a transition

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word suggesting that what washington did wasn't what might be

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expected right It was like instead of a diversion washington

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had just won that huge war with the brits there

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so it wouldn't be crazy to see some humble brags

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in his letter written only a few weeks later However

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that's not what he wrote about this word appropriately conveys

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the contrast presented in this sentence however that's what should

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be there for instead to make sense the previous sense

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would need to mention the thing that washington was expected

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to do and then you know did something else whatever

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Could work if we said something like whatever the outcome

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of the war washington would continue to advocate for arts

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education But we didn't say that did way having nothing

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but a comma after whatever is like a way to

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cash for this essay Finally without a little more information

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there's really no way to know whether mentioning the war

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would have been bad for washington so luckily doesn't fit

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here Either Answer is d however or we could say 00:01:27.873 --> [endTime] however the answer is d however

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