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Can someone summarize the main idea of the passage please ? Thank you~~~
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Hi dshen123!

The main idea of this passage can be summarized as, "The colonials and the English had conflicting interpretations of the language and institutional structures that they shared."

If faced with a question asking for the main idea or main point, note that wrong answer choices often discuss only part of the passage (such as one or two paragraphs) but do not describe the passage in its entirety. In this passage, conflicting interpretations of language is brought in with the first paragraph. The second paragraph shifts to discussing institutions, with the third and final paragraphs then unpacking how "attitudes toward those institutions differed" (lines 26-27) despite the structural similarities.

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