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This SAT Writing video on The Treasury's beginnigs asks you to figure out how to maintain the logical flow of a paragraph. It's not as complicated as it sounds, we promise.


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Okay Essay writing shmoop er's Just two more and then

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we're done with this awesome exercise to maintain a logical

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flow of the paragraph Where should sentence four be placed

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All right logical flow So sentence for let's Go find

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that thing One two three and four Well let's think

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about this The information in this paragraph moves in rough

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chronological order Right Therefore it's best to have the information

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about may seventeen eighty one come after the information about

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seventeen Seventy eight in sentence for the dollars devaluation problem

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from sentenced three gets worse It makes sense to have

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sentenced for this hunk right here with all its devaluing

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dollar related woes come right after sentence three Yeah Alright

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Loser bowl here A collapse Sounds like a pretty big

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deal And it is And we can infer from the

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collapsed dollar that financial administration probably wasn't going so well

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You know hamilton where are you So moving sentence for

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the beginning the paragraph would make sentence one redundant repetitive

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saying the same thing again and again You will be

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sent in three and four Both tell us the dollar

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was losing value with sent three stating the fact was

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an ongoing process and sentenced for giving us a specific

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date on which the dollars collapse was in full swing

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But with this kind of information makes the most sense

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To move from the general to the specific right Put

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the information about the general problem of devaluation first and

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follow it with the more specific problem of the collapse

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of the dollar So i get to see there Finally

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it helps to know why the americans were pro testing

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before knowing that they were pro testing Yeah sort of 00:01:37.853 --> [endTime] like most college campuses these days

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