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In this SAT Writing video a tired chief executive returns to his quarters to enjoy a peaceful dinner alone. Should we keep that lonely sentence?
Transcript
- 00:02
All right smokers This is it Last one of the
- 00:04
washingtonian siri's the author is considering adding the following sense
- 00:07
after the last sense of the show The sense So
- 00:09
following the address in a church service the tiger chief
- 00:11
executive returns to his quarters to enjoy a peaceful dinner
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- 00:13
alone All right well what do you think she would
- 00:17
keep it It kind of adds a lot there's something
- 00:19
you know kind of hauntingly echoey ish about it right
- 00:23
And if you were hungry while reading this essay well
- 00:25
you probably noticed that washington was eating breakfast at the
- 00:28
beginning and in the middle he was eating lunch here's
- 00:31
dinner neatly placed in a sentence that continues not only
- 00:34
with the meals pattern but also with the solitude theme
- 00:37
So it adds a lot and sure it's nice to
- 00:40
know what washington did next but what he did leading
- 00:43
you know it isn't actually all that important per se
- 00:46
it's more a style choice here than a substance One
- 00:49
the sentence before c is about congress in this piece
- 00:52
is about washington so it's more appropriate toe end with
- 00:55
a sentence That's just about him eating in solitude have
- 00:58
been recurring theme so well This sentence doesn't introduce anything
- 01:02
that we haven't seen before anyway so yeah so we're
- 01:05
keeping it and echoes the mentions of breakfast and lunch 00:01:09.41 --> [endTime] all right
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