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This SAT Writing video goes over the word 'regardless' in a passage about our first president.
Transcript
- 00:03
All right see shmoop er's just a few more here
- 00:06
next edit the word regardless and we're looking for it
- 00:12
in the document here cruising cruising and you'll have to
- 00:15
do this is why we kind of cruise through in
- 00:17
the beginning So its very last sentence like this only
Full Transcript
- 00:20
they're going for the minute continue because it's not even
- 00:22
that expensive remembered his heavy personal expenses were revolutionary war
- 00:24
never ignored the request for a goodwill gesture that he
- 00:26
would never repeat Washington urged members that are whatever legislation
- 00:28
he considered appropriate does regardless work in this when really
- 00:32
it kind of feels pretty awkward There's something else going
- 00:34
on here Well in the first sentence of the paragraph
- 00:37
right chair we learned that the president asked congress for
- 00:40
only one thing You think the guy who saved our
- 00:43
country get that one But then the next sentence says
- 00:46
he asked for a second thing wondering politics liars and
- 00:50
politics are inaccurate reporting it couldn't happen to show that
- 00:53
he's just about done asking for things Well we need
- 00:56
a phrase that conveys the equivalent of after those first
- 01:00
two things and lastly does the trick lastly see that
- 01:05
Woodwork that's in there so it sets off the end
- 01:07
of the phrase if the second last sentence were in
- 01:09
the parenthesis regardless might work because it sets up a
- 01:13
contrast between what was just said and what's Coming next
- 01:16
however there's really no contrast between asking for the salary
- 01:20
and asking congress to pass whatever legislation they pleased or
- 01:23
washington place Likewise on the other hand also sets up
- 01:27
a contrast That's not there like on what other hand
- 01:30
like what other proposal was made It was just past
- 01:32
the laws that i tell you to pass and finally
- 01:35
all things considered well that's typically used to start a
- 01:38
sentence it's focusing on the silver lining of a whole
- 01:41
list of bad things in a bad situation For washington 00:01:44.924 --> [endTime] at least for the moment all was well
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