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PSAT 1.1 Writing Diagnostic. How should the underlined portion be changed in the passage, if at all?

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PSAT 1.7 Writing Narrative Walkthrough. How would you change the underlined portion below, if at all?

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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by lunar flights They're always cheaper if

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you order him through orbits Check the following passage Demand

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for learning walk in space tournament given white eleventh sexton

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hello program All right how would you change the underlined

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portion below if it all to take a variety of

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measurements and hear the potential answers Right Well a variety

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of measurements huh Maybe this sexting thing is going to

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measure an astronaut's wait Or maybe it'll be used to

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measure the speed of the shuttle Or perhaps the astronauts

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are going to be making beef wellington on board their

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craft and want to measure out two tablespoons of extra

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virgin olive oil You know that seems a little non

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specific for our taste so we're going to nick's option

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a and assume there is a better choice Does see

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have it right Will it be used for several activities

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related to their position Well looks like we're taking another

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ride on board The vague mobile several activities ping pong

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cross stitch planking Well again this could be referring to

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anything So if we're looking for a way to finish

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this sentence by adding a bit more specificity well this

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is not the way to go about it So but

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by option c d suggest that we should just delete

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the underlying portion altogether But uh don't make this passage

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less detail not more detailed which is what we're looking

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for though instead of deleting the underlying portion we're going

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to delete option d how's that for taste your own

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medicine there buddy The correct answer is b The investigation

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used a sextant to measure their spaceships position using the

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stars even if we don't know what a sex it

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is And it sounds like something we shouldn't know about

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For atleast sixteen waken use context clues to conclude that

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this is probably right on the money It makes sense

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and it adds details So yeah he's the one we

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want now to grab a bite of that beef wellington

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the only tricky part getting it to stay on our 00:01:55.745 --> [endTime] plate while we're in zero gravity

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