Isn't it fun having friends who are also studying for the LSAT so we can talk about how RC is going at public gatherings? Can you tell I live for those moments???
What's so ironic to me about this paragraph is it's the kind of writing that law professors hate in legal writing classes bc it is so unnecessarily extra lollll
Really thankful that you are making these sentences more understandable by interchanging them in more simple terms, otherwise I would have lost focus..
We had a 30-page essay for the first paragraph and an Instagram-caption-length second paragraph. I thought my page only loaded halfway when I saw how short this para was in contrast to the first 😭
How important is it to be critical as we read? I didn't pick up on the question that Kevin asked, but I think I would've noticed it for LR ("Are the “imported programs” mentioned in the study imported from industrialized countries or other developing countries? Presumably they’re from industrialized countries (otherwise the study is irrelevant), but I don’t know for sure.")
is "which residents often use at public gatherings as a daily journal of events and interests" modifying "television" or "oral poetry"? i always get confused about these modifiers in sentences with multiple subjects. i thought it was the latter but this explanation suggests the former is correct. i got a question wrong before solely because of this misinterpretation. were there any foundational lessons on modifiers that dealt with this specifically? will it always be the case that the modifier refers to the first/main subject? is there a rule we can apply uniformly? or does it vary depending on the sentence and context? #help
Sorry, in the explanation I wasn't as clear as I could have been. The "which" does refer to oral poetry, as you thought. In describing the meaning of the sentence, however, I was connecting the point that TV could be used in a way that's analogous to how oral poetry is used. So, just as people use poetry at public gathering as a daily journal of events, the author believes TV could be used in the same way.
In general I'd interpret "which" as referring to the noun or noun phrase immediately preceding "which" -- I'm not sure if that's a grammatical rule, though, so I wouldn't be surprised if there are exceptions.
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Isn't it fun having friends who are also studying for the LSAT so we can talk about how RC is going at public gatherings? Can you tell I live for those moments???
can we be friends so i can also have those moments
for real
diabolical sentence
You just know the LSAT writers felt like real menaces when they wrote this paragraph
Nasty work for sure. Diabolical.
What's so ironic to me about this paragraph is it's the kind of writing that law professors hate in legal writing classes bc it is so unnecessarily extra lollll
def talking about game of thrones haha
it's giving love island bar watch parties
I GOT A TEXT!!!!!
@SwagOD hello this is a smoothie
When Kevin says, "Let's see what we get next" all I hear is the Law & Order, "DUN! DUN!"
@km928 love this I'm gonna do this now
Really thankful that you are making these sentences more understandable by interchanging them in more simple terms, otherwise I would have lost focus..
We had a 30-page essay for the first paragraph and an Instagram-caption-length second paragraph. I thought my page only loaded halfway when I saw how short this para was in contrast to the first 😭
#feedback It would be helpful to include the first paragraph above the second
gah too many modifiers
How important is it to be critical as we read? I didn't pick up on the question that Kevin asked, but I think I would've noticed it for LR ("Are the “imported programs” mentioned in the study imported from industrialized countries or other developing countries? Presumably they’re from industrialized countries (otherwise the study is irrelevant), but I don’t know for sure.")
the more Kevin broke down that sentence the less I understood. I had to pause and just read the bloody thing once through to get the gist.
How can we understand the "oral poetry" as the purpose to gossip about the drama shows in the passage?
its filler honestly
its just saying that "like poetry, people use it (tv shows) to have something to talk about"
is "which residents often use at public gatherings as a daily journal of events and interests" modifying "television" or "oral poetry"? i always get confused about these modifiers in sentences with multiple subjects. i thought it was the latter but this explanation suggests the former is correct. i got a question wrong before solely because of this misinterpretation. were there any foundational lessons on modifiers that dealt with this specifically? will it always be the case that the modifier refers to the first/main subject? is there a rule we can apply uniformly? or does it vary depending on the sentence and context? #help
Ahh okay I see. Thanks so much for clarifying Kevin! RC lessons are awesome so far :)
Sorry, in the explanation I wasn't as clear as I could have been. The "which" does refer to oral poetry, as you thought. In describing the meaning of the sentence, however, I was connecting the point that TV could be used in a way that's analogous to how oral poetry is used. So, just as people use poetry at public gathering as a daily journal of events, the author believes TV could be used in the same way.
In general I'd interpret "which" as referring to the noun or noun phrase immediately preceding "which" -- I'm not sure if that's a grammatical rule, though, so I wouldn't be surprised if there are exceptions.