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Description:
Formal vs. Informal tones can be tricky. This SAT Writing video tries to help you figure things out.
Transcript
- 00:02
Increasing its cooling caused by a lot Ok i see
- 00:04
the remote for his last one in this writing section
- 00:07
on all sci fi stuff Let's go find the paragraph
- 00:10
here It was last sends Successful They will know exactly
- 00:13
what you said at the electric lines without sacrificing point
Full Transcript
- 00:14
performance increasing its cooling cost by a lot All right
- 00:19
people Well the essay isn't conversational One might even say
- 00:22
it's ah a bit dry work which morning yeah of
- 00:28
the choices listed the driest or most formal way to
- 00:31
say ah lot is significantly as is the senses grammatically
- 00:36
correct but the tone is suddenly ah lot or should
- 00:40
we say significantly more conversational that's why a doesn't work
- 00:43
you like comes out informally out of nowhere like your
- 00:45
debutante ball and you smack someone on the back and
- 00:49
tell a dirty joke right You don't do that well
- 00:51
the word significantly gets the tone back on track but
- 00:54
then supersizing brings the sentence right back to a conversational
- 00:58
level that makes ah lot sound sophisticated Get rid of
- 01:02
that like super sizing totally is the wrong tone plus
- 01:05
totally can also mean completely which confuses the meaning of
- 01:09
the whole sense How do you completely increase something it's
- 01:12
like super unique We like totally don't know you know
- 01:16
all right Finally we're done We'll see you in the 00:01:18.422 --> [endTime] next section we hope if you're away lo way
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