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AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill 2, Problem 3. The subject of the passage can best be described as what?
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The word "this" (line 50: "One consequence of all this…") refers to
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Ok next up the word this online Fifty one consequence
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of all of this refers tio What Well this question
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is tricky because the referring for this is way way
- 00:20
back in the paragraph right back there in line fifty
- 00:23
the author is saying that consequence of all this is
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the rise of labor movements so the referring needs to
- 00:30
encapsulate all the horrible things that lead toa workers wanting
- 00:34
Toe organizer unionized frankly when we don't blame them that
- 00:37
this doesn't refer to only one of the many factors
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like the paltry industrial wages So get rid of e
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or the lack of social mobility So get rid of
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a that resulted from working in the factories where no
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one was learning any kind of marketable skill So get
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rid of be because the work had been restructured we'll
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get rid of c the right answer here It's bleak
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conditions that's really the core of what that's referring Teo
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online forty five there And yeah it was pretty bleak
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