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Marie and here's your shmoop too sure brought to you

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by coconuts Early explorers were disappointed to discover no chocolate

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inside now feeling almond said all right we'll check out

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the passage read it it's like the eighth time you've

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probably read it we know you're gonna memorize is such

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great writing all right you don't How would you correct

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this underlying segment from the passage If it all classifications

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however and here the potential answers and there's like a

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calm alert here Well the key to getting this question

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right is knowing that however is a conjunctivitis advert right

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Well it's the job of the conjunctivitis adverb to relate

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the ideas of independent clauses which are clauses that can

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stand on their own as complete sentences They're very specific

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rules about how to punctuate when using however and other

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conjunctivitis verbs like nevertheless thus and consequently if we don't

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follow these rules well we usually end up with run

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on sentences which is no bueno For example we can

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eliminate choice a for not using any punctuation at all

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We can't go around slapping independent clauses together without using

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punctuation If we did all compound sentences would be run

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on Thoughts and ideas would much together no that he

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would know what anybody else was saying in society would

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descend into anarchy We think it's best to avoid such

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things so well nix a before it causes any more

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trouble choice d does a little bit better by placing

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a comma after however it's always necessary to place a

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comma after conjunctivitis ever Whether it's connecting two independent clauses

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or kicking off an individual sense however comma choice d

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still turns this sentence into a run on by not

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placing any punctuation before the word However therefore comma will

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get rid of it before chaos ensues like de choice

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see correctly places a comma after however it veers off

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when it places akama before the conjunctivitis adverb If we

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want to use a conjunctivitis adverb to doing two independent

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clauses it's always necessary to use a semi colon comma

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is just don't cut it and neither does choice see

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the only option that correctly punctuates the senses be here

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Akama follows however and a period divides the two independent

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clauses At long last we're safe from the danger of 00:02:17.118 --> [endTime] run on at least for now

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