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Common Core 8th Grade 4.3 Reading Literary Text. Which sentence best supports this inference?
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour brought to you by resourceful and wise people which
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is what you automatically qualify as being when you watch
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this video The whole thing No shortcuts You have to
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keep watching All right take a look at this excerpt
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from how the whale got his throat Interesting when they're
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a movie about that jonah you know not a movie
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as a book Different We're just going to skin this
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thing how stella stella got her groove back or something
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like that Okay Still with us Great Here's your question
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The author suggests that resourceful and wise people obey their
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parents I know you may not agree with that but
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which sentence best supports this inference and hear your potential
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answers All right mummy Like a mummy All right Well
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let's take a look at answer b So the whale
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called down his own throat to the shipwrecked mariner Come
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out and behave yourself I've got the hiccups Well nothing
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about being wiser resourceful here So be is wrong though
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This well is probably pretty wise How many whales do
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you know who speak english What about c Well again
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Nothing about being wise are resourceful and no mention of
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parents to be found here And while the image of
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a dancing mariner is a pretty fun it's not what
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we're looking for okay on two d while we finally
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have an answer that talks about mother's this sentence doesn't
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say anything about listening to good old mom's advice so
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we can throw the overboard All right what about a
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So the mariner had his mummy's leave or permission which
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means that he listened to his dear mother That makes
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eighty answer We're looking for good on you mariner Your
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wisdom is as vast as the sea and your dance
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moves auras Funky fresh as the ocean breeze Only
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