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SAT Writing and Language Drill 7.2 Effective Language Use
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SAT Writing & Language: Sentence Transitions at the Beginning of an Essay
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What's the whole essay about? How does time control or matter to the essay as a whole?

SAT Writing & Language: Does This Sentence Support the Essay Topic?
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This SAT Writing videos goes over when to keep or ditch an extra sentence.

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What's the whole essay about? How does time control or matter to the essay as a whole?


Transcript

00:02

all right people we're starting the SAT

00:05

writing section of our SAT prep [Woman writing on school desk]

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lucky you yeah here we go so we got 11

00:11

of these bad boys and for each question

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you're gonna choose the answer that best

00:15

improves the writing quality or makes

00:17

the writing adhere to standard written

00:19

English conventions no Klingon from you

00:23

Bob in the back there some questions

00:25

include a no change choice and that's

00:27

just fine if it's perfect the way it is

00:29

so let's start by just kind of skimming

00:31

this thing so we kind of get a sense for

00:35

what they're doing here... [mumbling sped up]

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all right we're just gonna skip down to

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the question....

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Advanced composites

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such as carbon fiber are three times as

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strong in twice as light as the lightest

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metals currently they're used for

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expensive applications like satellites [Man opens car door]

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and luxury cars the first paragraph sets

00:59

up the rest of the essay which is about

01:00

a new Institute working on advanced

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composite whoo-hoo we're gonna need some

01:05

context before we can care about these [Man browsing through book shelf]

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materials however the sentence that

01:09

begins with currently tells us what's

01:12

going on now right now in the world of

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advanced composites but be there read

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suggest a contrast there's no contrast

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nevertheless and though also implies

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some kind of opposition and it's not [Although and nevertheless wrestling]

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really like they're in that kind of

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fragmented and we really don't like

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fragments so that's it it looks like

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it's no change and yes the answer is a

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no change sort of like when you buy a

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hot dog from a street vendor and [5 dollar bill switching hands]

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