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ACT Aspire English: Putting Sentences in a Logical Order
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Which of the following would be the most logical order of sentences in Paragraph 2?

ACT Aspire English: Where Should the Author Add a New Sentence?
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Suppose the author wants to add the following sentence to the passage: Artists still record music and people still buy music, but not in traditiona...

ACT Aspire English: Identifying Effective Closing Sentences
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Which of the following sentences, if added by the author to the end of Paragraph 3, would serve to close that paragraph most effectively?

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ACT Aspire English: Expressing the Relationship Between Two Thoughts 0 Views


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All right aspiring people Here we go nine of twelve

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instead of survival instincts instead are We're in paragraph three

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crews and down here Over the last few years many

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of your friends robs produced but your room survivors from

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unless game challenging morning of rival abilities The majority of

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these shows such as survive or man man woman wild

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are not aired on major networks like cbs Instead they're

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aired on cable channels like the discovery channel Well let's

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think about this one instead is a good bad or

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ugly Well there are two distinct parts of this sentence

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and they need to be linked with a word that

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indicates the relationship between them like loving Yeah first part

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says the show's aren't aired on major networks in the

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second guard says that there are darn certain cable network

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like there's a big difference in the way they're set

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up as written We're dealing with a common that's trying

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It's darndest and failing miserably to join to complete thoughts

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both instead as an a and nevertheless as in c

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would be fine after a semi colon or a period

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But alas not so much even though incorrectly suggest that

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second part is an exception to the first part indeed

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only but rather like b which is the right answer

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effectively expresses the relationship between the two parts of the

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sentence So it should read The majority of these shows

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such as a survivor man and man woman wild are

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not aired on major networks like c B s but

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rather they are aired on cable channels like discovery That's 00:01:40.251 --> [endTime] it We've discovered the answer Who win shark week

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