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SAT Reading: Which Choice Provides Evidence to Support That Inference? 6 Views


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This SAT Reading video goes over another aspect of why St. Looy was an intolerable apprentice in Mark Twain's memoires.


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all right moving on down the line here we go which gives the strongest evidence

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for the answer to the previous question most likely drag the apprentice in [text on screen]

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everything we have seen Louie in or to do without the previous question so now

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they're asking which choice constrains evidence for the answer so you better

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have gotten the answer right on the previous one or you kind of miss a

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twofer here okay so you're whole bunch of lines there twenty and twenty four

00:23

thirty we'll come back to them as we're hunting for things going through the

00:27

answer here let's think through the puffed-up Sailor walks the walk and

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talks the talk in order to ensure that nobody could help remembering that he

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was a steamboatman like he's showing off he's saying hey look at me look at me [man dancing in street]

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well this line openly tells us that boy named drops and acts like a big shot to [text on screen]

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get attention so it's all in a line twenty four through thirty right so

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that's B has got to be the right answer well I'll keep going the first line of

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the paragraph gives the reader an excellent introduction to how

00:55

intolerable the boy is but it doesn't imply any specifics about how or why he

01:00

uses the term st. Louie so get rid of three there it's not in there his showy

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manner may make the other boys wish he were dead but that doesn't explain his

01:08

actions either similarly a description of how the other boys feel doesn't

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sufficiently say what the attention-seeking kid is trying to

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accomplish with his silly accent so yeah oh well moving on

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