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here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by instruction

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manuals we can't wait to put together our new [Girl with a box and assembles a desk]

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desk as soon as we figure out how to get this instruction manual put together..

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think of the passage... Juanita wanted to put her new desk

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together she had to read the instruction manual as she was putting it together

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she was so proud of herself when she had the entire thing put together the

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purpose of the instruction manual was what and here's the potential answers...

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um we're guessing the purpose of the instruction manual was to see how many

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times they could squeeze the phrase put together into a single paragraph yeah [put together phrase highlighted in text]

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okay well let's check out our answer choices here first option is A; to

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persuade is the instruction manual intended to persuade Juanita to put [Jaunita stood with a desk instruction manual]

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together the desk well if she already bought the desk

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chances are she didn't need any persuading most people don't get the box

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home spread out all the pieces on the living room carpet and well just call it

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a day Juanita might be an odd bird but that [Juanita chasing birds]

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might be something she's into - and pretty safe to assume the manual has better

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thing to do with it's this time so A is out is it C to entertain well

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unfortunately we can't take a look at the manual in question but we're [Cartoon clown character holding desk]

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guessing there are no pictures in there of a group of clowns assembling the desk

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while they hilariously bump into each other and honk bicycle horns and noses [Clowns assembling desk and bicycle horn sounds]

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so no the purpose is definitely not to entertain to D; to describe well in a

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sense yeah like it's describing how to put the desk together so technically

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this answer choice could work but the word described is pretty broad in this

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case it could be referring to describing what the desk will look like when it's [Girl thinking of the desk when assembled]

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done or describing the history of desks or something else there's a better

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option in the mix so we should go with

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it answer B to inform sure the whole reason

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they throw a manual in there is to inform you how to put spaces together so [Man in a store with lots of instruction manuals]

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you don't end up having to eat off something that looks like this...informing

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is more specific than describing so it's the best answer in the bunch

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now that our desk is ready we can put our computer on it and get to work [Computer lands on desk and woman begins work]

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aren't these things supposed to come fully assembled?...

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