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SAT Writing and Language Drill 7.1 Sentence Structure
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SAT Writing and Language Drill 7.2 Effective Language Use
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SAT Writing & Language: Sentence Transitions at the Beginning of an Essay
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Watch this SAT Reading video to find out more about the job outlook for urban plannters. How riviting.


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All right jumpers Next one as an example were two

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in our series of eleven here All right let's go

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back to paragraph and find as an example It's right

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there in the third sense as example Planner may examine

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proposals for new school I'm sure that will meet the

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needs of changing population grows and changes It becomes popular

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with robots and sandy's planners helping these manage that related

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economic social and environmental issues What phrases like for instance

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introduce a specific example of something that was just discussed

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Usually in the previous sentence for instance is not only

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a useful phrase but it's a flexible one too because

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it really can go anywhere in the sentence you know

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kind of like the cheese it stands alone Put it

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after the first comma for instance and the sentences meaning

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stays the same So that's our baby d there for

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instance go the loser pile here If you put as

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an example a after that same comma well then the

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sentence might mean that the planners are examining plans as

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if those plans were an example wherever it is in

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the sentence as an example isn't as concise as for

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example however an example by itself is an incomplete claws

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like be so rid of that What about the example

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Well given that maybe grammatically correct but it suggests a

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sequence of events like what was given here Where were

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we told about the things that go on in same

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city There are urban planners who developed these planes and

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because of that while they examine plans for proposed facilities

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that's not quite the right relationship between sentences so that's 00:01:29.771 --> [endTime] it you know for instance

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