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Identify the function of a passage

Identify the function of a passage

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Identify the function of a passage

- [Voiceover] Being able to identify the components of a reading passage will usually give you better understanding of that passage since you can see what role each part of the passage plays. Then moreover, certain GRE questions will directly ask you to identify the function of a part of a passage. So in this video I'll give you some ideas about how to read for function. So, I have a sample passage for you here, about GMOs, and I'm gonna go through the drill, and this is a really good drill to do with any GRE passage actually. We just gonna go through sentence by sentence to see if we can give a name to what each sentence does. And I'll give you a couple ideas before we begin. There might be things like background information, perhaps there is an author opinion, there might be opinions by others. Often after opinions, there is support for those opinions. And finally there might be things like the implications or the bigger picture. So that's not an exhaustive list of all the…

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