ShmoopTube

Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.

Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos


Standard English Conventions Videos 41 videos

SAT Writing and Language Drill 7.1 Sentence Structure
85 Views

What do austronauts and Michael Jackson have in common? Watch this video on sentence structure to find out!

Its...or is it it's?
19 Views

Its...or is it it's? Watch this SAT drill to help unravel that age old question.

SAT Writing & Language: Em-Dashes vs. Semicolons
22 Views

Cars and dashes. Yes, we're talking dashes not dashboards in this SAT Writing video.

See All

SAT Writing and Language Drill 5.1 Conventions of Punctuation 6 Views


Share It!


Description:

Another fine SAT Writing video on the Job Outlook for Urban Planners. Get your thinking cap on for some paragraph analysis.


Transcript

00:01

All right t writing shmoop er's We've got another fine

00:05

passage for you it's Fine This is awesome writing Yes

00:09

it really is All right Title the job outlook for

00:13

urban planners Well alright innovative professionals Yeah we could kind

00:17

of skim this And why don't we You know we

00:18

got a whole lot of underlying anything's here We're gonna

00:20

go through try to figure out what this is about

00:22

picking out a few key words and goes read the

00:24

first sentence of each paragraph just we kind of get

00:27

our geek dipped All right here we go Innovative fresh

00:29

nell's with background that iconic quality signing an environmental design

00:32

should consider a career in the growing fields of urban

00:35

in regional planning rights is kind of a recruiting doc

00:38

for urban planners All right herman in him who worked

00:41

about short long from flames establish maintain communities is in

00:43

a plant or may exam on a new school and

00:45

totally you know socially urban planning's relatively new field Alright

00:50

yada yada because cities are always changing Planning's relatively steady

00:54

career path i'm sent change beauticians is demand and planer

00:57

mill and times grow ten percent Yeah about his fast

01:00

Average for all occupations are not very exciting And increase

01:03

folks unstable environmentally conscious val minerals increased demand for them

01:07

You storm water management when cities have funds for development

01:10

projects planners in high demand and plans on face competition

01:12

for jobs Okay well here we go first one short

01:15

and long term plans Let's See where that's coming from

01:18

and go back to the writing and find it well

01:21

in the first paragraph here we go Innovative professional back

01:23

from that kind of political science around hank urban and

01:26

regional planners worked to develop short and long term plans

01:30

to establish and maintain communities well there are two kinds

01:33

of plans in this sentence Short term plans and long

01:37

term plans when two words act together is a single

01:40

adjectives such as short term plans or long term plans

01:44

while they get a hyphen between them In this situation

01:46

plans has only said wants to avoid repetition which is

01:50

klein Short is still part of a two word noun

01:53

phrase Therefore it deserves its own special hyphen making short

01:57

dash and long dash term plans The right choice Well

02:01

two words Adjectives need hyphen Cia like in a but

02:04

if that's not reason enough consider this idea Without the

02:07

two hyphens the plans could be term plans whatever that

02:10

means Yeah then there would be two types of term

02:12

plans short ones and long ones and that would make

02:15

this sentence pretty wacky Dropping the hyphen after short or

02:18

adding three hyphens would make the plans both short term

02:22

and long term eliot once which seems kind of well

02:24

impossible That's it The correct answer is c They're short

02:27

dash and long dash term plans and well that's it 00:02:30.543 --> [endTime] All right we're done

Related Videos

SAT Writing & Language: Em-Dashes vs. Semicolons
22 Views

Cars and dashes. Yes, we're talking dashes not dashboards in this SAT Writing video.

SAT Writing and Language Drill 7.1 Sentence Structure
85 Views

What do austronauts and Michael Jackson have in common? Watch this video on sentence structure to find out!

SAT Writing and Language Drill 7.2 Effective Language Use
23 Views

Learn about effective language use from austronauts that like hoarding moon rocks in this SAT writing drill!

SAT Writing & Language: Sentence Transitions at the Beginning of an Essay
16 Views

What's the whole essay about? How does time control or matter to the essay as a whole?

Its...or is it it's?
19 Views

Its...or is it it's? Watch this SAT drill to help unravel that age old question.