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Which of the following would make the best introductory sentence for the passage?


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00:03

Okay see writing shmoop uppers We've got a whole new

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section here is on coherence organization and word choice of

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the evil three here So as with all these questions

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let's get to the answer first and then we'll go

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back and you're quick skin it's critical to understand how

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to properly dispose of and recycle electronic kiosks available Mp

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three players boy that's written a long time ago and

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flights of ban if you agree to sell the crackling

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seventy percent devices Second like probably in context which of

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the following would make the best introductory sentence for the

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passage So that is good because all we have to

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really skim is the first part of it here Okay

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so let's think about this Well we want to get

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hooked Not like a marlin or trout but is a

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reader right We need something snazzy Something that's going to

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catch our attention right from the start Like hello She

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lied Yeah something something like that Sometimes the best lead

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in is something that appeals to our everyday lives Excuse

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us while we fish those old remote control's out of

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the trash Those we look through the list here Well

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c is the only one that's really kind of grabby

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there's A common misperception is okay to put electronic devices

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and batteries in the trash like you just killed eight

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thousand goldfish downstream or something like that So that's probably

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only catchy ones that actually works so let's go through

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the loser bowl here just to be sure A good

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old question Well sometimes do it for us but well

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we don't want to be insulted before we start to

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read right So you were baking a there Yeah like

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yell Otis Mom what you doing there We also like

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statistics but only if they don't tell us The whole

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point of the essay is really not an actual problem

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for most people yeah like don't jump out of airplanes

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It's dangerous Yeah i don't do that anyway so thanks

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for the warning The transition word is great to get

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our tension but we don't want to place the conclusion

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in the introduction right D would be good at the

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very end maybe yeah okay so that's it it's say

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we're smoked and we're gonna go do some recycling of 00:02:10.086 --> [endTime] jokes

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