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CAHSEE ELA 1.3 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 dooz your brought to you

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by quotes because somebody else probably said it best way

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know that feeling sadly how would you correct the following

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sentence if it needs correcting it all All right i

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hate it when it rains said donna to her mother

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and here the french alliance Well this sends has two

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big problems It may sound bad but when we consider

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how many problems most people out doesn't seem like a

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big deal this sense has nothing to worry about We

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can fix the situation no sweat First thing wrong is

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that punctuation is missing at the end of the quotation

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on this piece of dialogue is in desperate need of

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a comma to separate it from the rest of the

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sentence This is a sort of thing that gets the

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grammar police is go and we don't even want to

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talk about what grammar cops do if somebody messes with

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their goat All right Knowing this we can cross out

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choice d which tells us sense is okay as it

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is on we can also eliminate kam elice option c

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so it's down to choices a and b and both

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get points for getting to come apart Right however they

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disagree on subject verb order be goes with donna said

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while a goes with said donna like the original sense

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while choice say isn't wrong wrong It just sounds old

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fashioned and kind of weird so we're going to go

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with choice b said donna to her mother sounds like

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a phrase from a victorian novel Hey we're down with

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mackenzie in style but we can't go that retro until 00:01:25.568 --> [endTime] urbanoutfitters decrease its cool again

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