Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 3 AIL 0235 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Trap Three: The Too-Specific Option
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The idea
Some options are a true sense made needlessly precise, naming a particular kind of the thing the word means generally. They feel learned and they overshoot. Prefer the option the sentence needs, not the one that displays the most knowledge about the word.
In practice
Precision that overshoots is wrong.
Where people slip
The learned-looking option is often the overshoot.
Your place on the trail
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