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Texas EOC English 1: 1.1 Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts
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Texas EOC English 1: 1.2 Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts
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Texas EOC English I: Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts Drill 1, Problem 2

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Texas EOC English 1: 2.2 Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts
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Texas EOC English 2: 2.5 Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts 183 Views


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Texas EOC English 2: Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts Drill 2, Problem 5

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by tidal pools which are great

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places to go If you can't think of a name

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for your memoirs Okay check the following passage from basic

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info about estuaries bye freshman Okay which of the following

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most accurately describes the style and tone in which the

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passage is written All right is an informative technical terse

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abstract All right well this passage has style but that

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doesn't make it special Every passage has its own style

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and tone This particular passage isn't all that abstract though

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so we connects option d pretty obvious it doesn't blow

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our minds with big weird theories and or experimental style

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like some academy award winning movies with me passengers by

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the book and gives a straightforward information so not abstract

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All right the passage is also not super technical like

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choice b would claim We don't get a lot of

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complex details on the inner workings of plant life and

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stuff inside of you ph balances in depth environmental factors

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all that that's the stuff the article would need if

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it wanted it qualifies being technical technical manuals in the

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deep end while this passages in the kiddie pool see

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isn't right either church describes something that's short for a

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brought a church version of the passage would sound like

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this estuaries are bodies of water where freshwater mixes with

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soft the end but that's not our passages It is

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the correct answer The passage gives us info on the

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key features and characteristics of the estuaries so it wouldn't

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be a stretch to call it informative However it would

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be a stretch to call it bob let's Not do 00:01:45.253 --> [endTime] that ever

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