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Thank you We sneak Ratio of asking questions versus giving

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answers allah shmoop sponsored by the marriage bureau it's always

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a good idea to ask questions whether you're in class

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at a job interview or ordering hot dogs at a

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baseball game get your odds don't ask what's in him

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Another good place to ask questions is in an essay

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you just have to be sure not to ask too

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many of them Well what's a good ratio of questions

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toe answers in an essay if you're asking question every

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paragraph well yeah that's too many sorry you have to

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let your essay speak for itself sometimes like this to

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be or not to be too many questions make you

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sound like you lack confidence Remember you're driving this essay

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bus like a boss A bus boss if you will

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asking too many questions is like having your passengers drive

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the bus The more you give up control the more

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likely they are to run off the road It's something

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not good but call your friendly geico agent If they

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do if you do decide to raise a question in

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your introduction spend the majority if not all of your

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body paragraphs answering that Question that's the point of the

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whole essay after all hasting is important too not that

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kind of pacing meaning timing don't let too many questions

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slow your paper to a problem your body paragraph should

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be chock full of information human essay as it goes

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questions in that part of the essay or just speed

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bumps if you're writing an essay about driving a bus

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and you're continually asking questions like have you ever wondered

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what a bus driver does Or is it difficult to

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operate a vehicle that large No then you're answering them

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it's like saying you know after everything you say you

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know you know a good place for a question is

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near the end of your body or in your concluding

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paragraph to open up the essay tome or discussion Remember

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the majority of the essay should be answers in information

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especially in the body paragraphs and some questions shouldn't be

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answered at all They're there to open up the topic

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for the readers so there's no hard and fast rule

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but one or two questions in a five paragraph essay

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is more than enough and just fine And if you

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do find yourself driving a bus Well don't you cry

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Don't have your license to drive a bus so just

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get off Get off there Go get someone else to 00:02:40.01 --> [endTime] drive it What are you doing

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