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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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CAHSEE ELA 1.5 Writing Conventions. How would you correct the following sentence, if at all?


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

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by positives because add negatives Bringing everyone down But how

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would you correct the following sentence if it needs correcting

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at all Mr brown mr allen's neighbor of forty five

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years sat on his porch every morning Something wrong here

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and here The potential answers All right well the key

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here is knowing how to spot a positive You'll know

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in a positive by its speckled breast Wait That's Not

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right Oh yeah positives are now nhs or noun phrases

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that modify nan's right next to him Here's an example

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Larry the hot dog king could scarf one hundred hot

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dogs in a minute The positive in this example is

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the hot dog king because it describes larry And by

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the way we don't recommend that anybody out there use

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larry is aroma Did you notice how in our example

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we separated the a positive from the rest of the

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sentence with commas Yeah well that's why we have to

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do it Don't believe us Well just look at the

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sentencing question mr brown Mr allen who are we talking

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about They're all mushed together There's No way This sentence

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is gonna fly so we can eliminate choice d The

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first thing we have to do to straighten out this

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mess has identified the positive in this case It's the

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phrase mr allen's neighbor of forty five years which describes

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the noun mr brown but from here on out it's

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smooth sailing because all we need to do is find

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the answer that slaps commas around the phrase Well choice

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b gets the first comma in the right place but

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slides in the second comma too soon Option c gets

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the second comma right but this is the first one

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In the end Only choice has everything we need Wait

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you say are you certain it's A Yes we reply 00:01:48.566 --> [endTime] were a positive

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