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CAHSEE ELA 1.1 Writing Conventions. How would you correct the following sentence, if it needs correcting at all?


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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by healthy snacks like green gummy bears What they don't

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count as eating your greens way Thought they did No

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How do you correct following sentence if it needs correcting

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it off When gillian arrives home from school she likes

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to make herself a healthy snack right here the potential

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answers thinking she's making herself into a healthy snack that

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because you are not with your cannibal Okay for this

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question we have to know our clauses It helps us

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find the right punctuation and also helps us get the

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best christmas presents In this case when jillian arrives home

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from school is an introductory klaus why is that important

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Because now we know the sentence isn't correct as is

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which lets us nick's choice d introductory clauses always have

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to be separated from the rest of the sentence with

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some kind of punctuation like a comma or something like

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that But which kind is it Well we definitely don't

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need a semicolon as choice be suggest our knowledge of

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clauses helps us here is well because we know that

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semicolons can only connect to independent clauses like clauses that

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khun stand alone like trees way Ever get confused about

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whether flaws is independent or dependent We just say it

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out loud on its own Check it She likes to

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make herself a healthy snack Done Totally works right She

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is the subject make is the verb No problems there

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except maybe jillian's pension for healthy snacks with that separate

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story Come on gillian Put some caramel on that apple

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now let's Say the first clause by itself and see

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if that sounds right when gillian arrives home from school

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that's it sounds weird doesn't it Yeah Gillian could be

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a subject and arrives could be a verb But the

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word win throws everything out of whack this's Because when

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isa subordinating conjunction almost any time a claus begins with

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when the word makes it subordinate teo or dependent on

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another clause No amount of self help tapes will make

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these pauses self sufficient All of that To say that

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a semi colon has no place We have to connect

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a dependent clause to an independent claws and semi colons

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are only interested in connecting clauses that air independent joy

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see tries to pull it off with an ellipsis but

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this dot dot dot is don't don't don't sorry about

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that that that you lips These aren't for separating clauses

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They're just and overused way of style izing dramatic pauses

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on We love that from up here okay that was

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boring not dramatic Choice is the best answer Usually all

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we need is a comment of separate an introductory claws

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from the rest of the sentence Unless the introductory klaus

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really hates the other clauses then we need a herd 00:02:35.685 --> [endTime] of elves to keep them apart would you

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