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CAHSEE ELA 1.3 Writing Strategies. What is the best way to combine sentences 10 and 11?
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Sorry And here's your smoke do you sure Brought to
- 00:06
you by the grammar police We know them well like
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mall security they get mad when you say they aren't
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real cops checking the following passage everything you can honey
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listen world Okay what is the best way to combine
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sentences Ten and eleven right here these two and here
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the pencil answers every headline All right Well this question
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is strictly about punctuation so it's time to break out
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our grammar rules and celebrate Here we have what looks
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like two sentences But the problem is that the second
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sentence isn't a sentence at all In order for a
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sense to stand alone we have to have some form
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of noun or a pronoun followed by a verb that
- 00:54
tells us what that thing is doing The platypus swims
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is a sentence The platypus is not in the fragment
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and hand the word Many might work as a subject
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but we aren't told what many are doing We could
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ask ourselves Well sometimes many of both do what Since
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the second sentence can't stand on its own It's known
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as a dependent clause just like a little kid crossing
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the street or a needy spouse It can never be
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alone So we know we can next choice d which
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suggests that everything's All right as it is first a
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tragic nick the dependent clause to the first sentence with
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a semi colon But this is a big no no
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the grammar police get angry when somebody breaks this rule
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semi colons can only be used to connect two full
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sentences a two independent clauses so across our choice a
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before the grammar cops start firing rubber bullets Option b
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thinks using the colon is a good idea but it's
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not the best answer While a colon can be used
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to connect a phrase to a full sentence it's usually
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used for emphasis here's an example There's Only one thing
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to dio confess and face the voices Who stern right
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a little emphasis is needed The phrase sometimes many of
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both just doesn't need that kind of punch the colon
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implies so answer c is the way to go We
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don't need anything fancy here A simple comment connects the
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dependent clause and it keeps the grammar police off our
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backs which is good since the grammar police have put 00:02:19.695 --> [endTime] it away since they got those new frosted donuts
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