00:03
This question is asking about the purpose of the entire passage.
00:09
These questions can be a little bit intimidating because it's usually the first question that you're asked right after you've read your passage.
00:15
I would encourage you to answer questions like this last.
00:19
Do all of your other line questions first, right, where it tells you to go to a specific line to answer a question.
00:25
Answer all those questions first and then come back to your purpose question.
00:29
That way you've looked at your passage a little bit more closely and you're better equipped to answer a question.
00:33
Like this, right? so whenever we answered all of our other questions, we have a general idea and we know that the biggest purpose that they're talking about is herring, right? and it's declining in some areas and not others.
00:47
It does go into specifics about different areas of the country, but as far as the purpose for the entire passage, we need to make sure that answer choice we pick is a little bit more broad, right? we don't need it focusing on a specific country because that's not what the entire passage is about.
01:02
So let's look at.
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The answer choices and see which ones can make the most sense.
01:08
If we look at answer choice a, right, it's talking about specifically canada, right? that's going to be a little bit too specific, right? we're talking about multiple countries in this passage, so we can go ahead and eliminate it...