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ACT English: Passage Drill 3, Problem 15. Which choice does the best job of summing up the main point of the article?
PSAT 1.22 Writing Diagnostic. Which choice results in the passage having the most appropriate concluding sentence?
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ACT English: Passage Drill 4, Problem 9. If the writer deleted the underlined segment, what would the sentence lose?
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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by metal fingers. Great when we want to swiftly
- 00:08
make fortune cookies, bad when we want a nice massage.
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If the writer were to delete the underlined phrase "fold the cookie in half to trap the
- 00:36
fortune inside," the sentence would primarily lose:
- 00:41
And here are the potential answers...
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This one's a no-brainer. All we have to do is read the underlined phrase, remember what
- 00:48
it says, and match it with an answer choice that says the same basic thing.
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We could do this with our eyes closed.
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Well, that would probably make it hard for us to read, so we'll keep them open.
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Option (A) is a definite no. The underlined phrase says nothing about how fortunes are
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printed.
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It would be cool if an ancient sage wrote them, but we bet they pop out of a printer.
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Choice (B) is incorrect because the speed of the machine isn't mentioned.
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We're guessing it's pretty fast, though. Chances are the Fortune III doesn't give a flip about
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the Slow Food Movement.
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(C) is wrong too; the phase doesn't fill us in on how many fortunes go into a cookie.
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Though...we assume the number is one. Two fortunes seems greedy.
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Looks like (D) wins the day. The underlined phrase describes exactly how the fortunes
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are trapped inside the cookies. This is a detail of how the machines work, so (D) is
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the correct answer.
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We feel bad for the fortunes trapped inside the cookies.
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Thus, we consider it an act of liberation every time we order Chinese.
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