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PSAT 1.3 Writing Diagnostic. To make the paragraph most logical, sentence 2 in the second paragraph should be placed...where?
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Sorry and here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by car crashes ninety five percent of which are caused
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by rambunctious toddlers All right check out this passage for
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me feeling on more innovations of all right you were
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skimming unimportant press All right make the paragraph most logical
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Sentenced two in the second paragraph should be placed Teo
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where And here in potential answers All right So where
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does it go Uh four sentence too Well there it
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is Wandering around lost and alone Where do you belong
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little buddy Okay Lesson learned Don't ever approach a stray
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paragraph If you want to keep your fingers All right
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where would this thing makes the most sense Well we're
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looking for an answer other than in a cage of
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the county zoo Is it good where it is now
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Wealth Answer that We'll have to see where it is
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now Let's take a look at that paragraph again right
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there The first sense mentions that sometimes these video systems
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have issues recording footage or not properly installed or maintain
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Then the second one says it's important to resolve these
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problems don't make sense to us but wait if you
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keep reading don't worry it'll be over soon we noticed
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that there are yet more problems mentioned throughout paragraph that
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wouldn't make any sense to say these problems until all
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of those problems are rattled off So no it's not
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ok as is option a thanks for playing can't be
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be moved too before sentence Six because sensex is directly
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referencing since five and we don't want to break up
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those two besties the last thing you want to do
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is interrupt the paragraphs flow so option bees out of
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here is the right move it before sense one no
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that would make even less sense than leaving it where
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it is now because in that case these problems would
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reference nothing It seemed to be conjuring up some mystery
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problems out of thin air and we're going to assume
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that the author of this paragraph is not in the
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mystery business is sir arthur conan doyle probably doesn't have
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to worry about watching back All right well the answer
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is c it should be moved to the very end
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of the paragraph After sentence six the line summarizes all
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the possible issues with video system's covered in the rest
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of the paragraph So the end is a perfectly fitting
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place Tio stick it We're so glad sentenced to finally
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found a home Now the trick is to keep it 00:02:17.575 --> [endTime] there
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