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ACT English: Style Drill 1, Problem 3. Which choice best matches the formality of the sentence? 

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Hurry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by white bread just as wheat bread is made for

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wheat white bread is made from white All right well

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how would you correct the underlying portion below if it

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all it's weird toe learn But scientific research has shown

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that our diet can include certain types of white bread

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Well what do you think What What All right well

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this sends lectures us on the results of scientific research

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which is definitely a formal pa pick Even if the

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subject of this particular study is what gregg who says

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that white bread can therefore we know we're looking for

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the answer that matches the rest of the sentence in

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formality is incorrect because the underlined portion in the original

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sentence uses the word weird This sounds too conversational to

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be employed in the unveiling of scientific research A scientist

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wouldn't sound all that legitimate if his or her brilliant

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conclusion after years of painstaking research was simply that a

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particular phenomenon wass weird And so we conclude that white

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bread is weird Well let's give a boo choice be

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tries to take the sentence off with joking aside Well

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we're not in on the joke though so it doesn't

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make much sense so forgive us if we don't laugh

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Joking aside is also a mega casual phrase so we

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can cross that be his too informal is well maybe

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they're wrong but well it sounds like somebody is chatting

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up their friend in a coffee shop Choice D just

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doesn't jive with the formal tone of the rest of

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the sentence I see is the correct answer because in

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spite of what we've learned is the most formal choice

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of the bunch Now that the sentence sounds legit white

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bread lovers out there can finally eat bleached flour with 00:01:44.948 --> [endTime] confidence

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