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Common Core 8th Grade 3.4 Reading Literary Text. Which phrase best states the meaning of "office of respiration"?
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour brought to you by the oliver twist a major
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dance craze from the nineteen sixties Because way all want
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to think about orphans while we're getting our groove on
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all right checking falling passage through not already been skimming
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through this ploughs along ones were mumbling quickly quickly and
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skimming done skimming All right you don't wanna do it
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pops All right well the phrase please So i want
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some more is something we would not say after finishing
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that paragraph re read the following lines from the tax
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There we go The fact is that there was considerable
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difficulty in inducing oliver to take upon himself the office
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of respiration which raised best states the meaning of office
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of respiration And here the potential answers Okay well how
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about a surgeon's duty to help the child Well the
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phrase were looking at says that the office of respiration
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is something oliver needs to take upon himself That means
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it's oliver's duty not the surgeons So is out All
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right let's look at answers be medical position of a
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lung specialist and see the room where surgeons abe breathing
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again The phrase office of respiration is talking about oliver
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doing something himself and both being dear talking about other
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people Dickens tries to confuse us with the word office
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but from the context we can see that he doesn't
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need a physical office or a profession You're both being
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dear also wrong That leaves us with c the necessary
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function of breathing let's use a little trick to see
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if this is right Replaced office of respiration with necessary
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function of breathing in the sentence Maybe even say it
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out loud That makes sense People giving you weird looks
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for saying that out loud And it sure does and
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they sure are And soc is our correct answer Now
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pump the beatles do the oliver twist and celebrate getting 00:01:55.769 --> [endTime] through that long question
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