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ACT English: Passage Drill 3, Problem 15. Which choice does the best job of summing up the main point of the article?
PSAT 1.22 Writing Diagnostic. Which choice results in the passage having the most appropriate concluding sentence?
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ACT English: Passage Drill 4, Problem 14. For the sake of logic and coherence in this paragraph, where should sentence 5 be placed?
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- 00:03
Here’s your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by flexible dough.
- 00:07
We once tried to keep up with it in yoga class, and our lower backs have never been the same.
- 00:25
For the sake of logic and coherence of the paragraph, Sentence 5 should be placed where?
- 00:30
And here are the potential answers...
- 00:38
Paragraph 3 gives us a rundown of the entire fortune cookie baking process.
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- 00:43
Sentence 5 explains what happens when a fortune cookie has totally cooled.
- 00:46
Let’s take a quick tour of the possible answers to see which one places this sentence
- 00:50
in the most logical location.
- 00:52
There’s no way (B) is the right answer.
- 00:54
Sentence 1 introduces the idea that we’re about to find out how these gentlemen worked
- 00:58
the miracle of placing fortunes inside fully baked cookies.
- 01:02
Jumping to the end of the baking process with Sentence 5 would be random, especially when
- 01:06
the following sentences detail steps that occur before the cookies cool.
- 01:10
Choice (C) also jumps the gun.
- 01:12
Sentence 3 tells us the content of cookie batter, and Sentence 4 details what happens
- 01:17
during the flexible doughy stage of fortune cookie making.
- 01:21
Option (A) doesn’t work either. Leaving Sentence 5 where it is now is a bad idea.
- 01:25
Sentence 4 is about the flexi dough stage, and Sentence 6 begins by describing how early
- 01:30
fortune cookie makers molded flexi dough.
- 01:33
Choice (D) is the way to go.
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The end of Sentence 6 takes us to the cooling phase of the fortune cookie making process,
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so it’s logical for the next sentence to describe what a fortune cookie looks like
- 01:43
after it’s cool.
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