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ELA Drills, Advanced: Textual Analysis 1. What can you infer from this passage about carrots?

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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by carrots, they improve [A stack of carrots]

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your vision and bunnies eat them all the time which makes us wonder do bunnies

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have x-ray vision....yeah all right

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well check out the following passage despite their high nutritional value

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carrots are among the most disgusting vegetables in the world so what can you

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infer from the passage and here are your potential answers....

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So, we're looking for something that's not totally [Boy looking for an item in a living room]

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obvious but it's implied by the tone or phrasing of this passage so something

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like carrots are among the most disgusting vegetables in the world, is

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way too explicit to be inferred or implied since it's sitting right there [Girl chewing on a carrot]

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in the text well let's take a look at our options and see which one we can

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infer from the passage starting with A this one isn't a great fit...sure the

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author mentions that carrots have high nutritional value but that doesn't [Person cutting up slices of carrot]

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really mean they'll be great in recipes so A is out.. what about B the writer

01:01

definitely thinks the carrots are nutritious it's right there in the text

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however that means we don't infer it from the passage it just explicitly

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state it, so B is out too, how about C well this one's not looking great we know

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that the author says carrots have high nutritional value but it's a bit of a [Girl sat by a window eating a carrot]

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leap from that to the author thinking people should eat them so C is gone

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too, what about D? well this one's a much better fit from carrots are among the

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most disgusting vegetables in the world we can pretty easily infer that the

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writer hates carrot what's more from their noting of carrots high nutritional

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value we can also infer that the writer can see the benefits of carrots even if [Writer inspecting a carrot]

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they may or may not despise them which means that option D is our correct

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answer and hey no big deal that the writer isn't into carrots that just

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means more for the super bunnies.. Hey marvel were smelling a new Avenger here

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what do you think [Bunny using laser vision]

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