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AP English Language and Composition 4.2 Passage Drill. Which of the following lines provides the most unity to the passage?
AP English Language and Composition 5.4 Passage Drill. The first paragraph implies that "the particular sciences" what?
AP English Language and Composition 6.10 Passage Drill. What significance does the title of the article have to the reading?
AP English Language: Analyzing The Purpose Of A Passage 7 Views
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The second paragraph (lines 5–15) serves primarily to
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Okay More ap laying for you Here we go The
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second paragraph lines five or fifteen search primarily to do
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what All right so line five Let's go back to
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the second biography that frenchman visits england He is a
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beam Don't we really bored interstate leading traditionally korbel a
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lapse of any ongoing dips a year that are putting
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i think returns visit and it doesn't arrive in paris
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The hastened development a lot But this is so french
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Okay well let's think about this The author here is
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a coy little minx She starts by explaining how tyrannical
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the americans are But then transitions to another topic completely
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the frenchman in england by explaining how europeans act with
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each other while she establishes what is in her mind
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as the ideal dynamic between countries which is a little
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bit of love and a little bit of hate Well
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the second paragraph actually leaves the first idea behind completely
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So just get rid of a right away The frenchman
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is a generic person like you know saying one must
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always eat the caviar before the liver Never after not
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a full fledged character So get rid of be the
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adorable french phrases never come up again And i think
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goodness get rid of sea and the function of this
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paragraph is to show the inter european dynamic not to
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catalogue the differences between french and english culture So the
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answer Yeah it's deep Provide context for the author's argument
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and note how very generic in general de is It's
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hard to be wrong when something just says you know 00:01:32.904 --> [endTime] the air is good and war is bad
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