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This SAT Writing video is on urban planners. Find out if the government gives them the budget needed to carry out their plans.


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Okay Essay writing Shmoop er is the last one in

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the siri's here At least it would be Wait did

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there would be Although government funding issues may affect employment

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in short term job prospects should actually improve over the

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coming decade And boy this person's an optimist Whatever an

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area experiences economic downturn trained professionals air needed to effectively

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manage the crisis Planners will be needed to help plan

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oversee and carry out development projects that would be deferred

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due to poor economic conditions Yeah combined with the increased

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man's got together the sentence that opens the paragraph is

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about the present and the near future It follows that

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the rest the paragraph will be about this fuzzy period

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of time around and just ahead of the present The

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present perfect tense have been refers to an action that

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began in the past has continued to happen up until

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now and may keep happening in the future because this

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paragraph is predicting the future prospects of urban planners based

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on the past and the present will the option that

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straddles all three of these tenses is perfect Yes present

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perfect Right So we get rid of egg Would be

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is a conditional verb Conjugation that's used one predicting something

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about future That depends on the present The poor economic

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conditions are in the present though So if follows that

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if the projects were gonna be deferred because of money

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woes well it would've happened already right would have been

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take step back in time referring to something that didn't

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happen but that could have given some past conditions right

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Remember though that this senses about the fuzzy present will

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be takes a step forward in time which is also

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in the wrong direction All right so that's it breathe

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a sigh of relief go get a burger fries and

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a shake and then a nap and then come back

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and we'll abuse you with more sections going forward here 00:01:49.935 --> [endTime] Ah

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