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ELA Drills, Advanced: Punctuation 1 301 Views
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ELA Drills, Advanced: Punctuation 1. Which option best completes the sentence?
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak then here's your shmoop du jour
- 00:05
brought to you by sailors so nice that they could
- 00:07
take some time off from sweeping the poop deck It's
- 00:11
kind of gross all rights like the option that best
- 00:14
completes the sentence The rocky blank desolate shore intimidated the
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- 00:18
sailors and hear the pencil answers All right commas and
- 00:22
not okay Well here's a hint common at yeah what's
- 00:25
the relationship between rocky and desolate Like what word of
- 00:30
eight describing all right while there's something to mull over
- 00:33
as we move forward ways we've got this shore that
- 00:36
sailors are well not big fans of their intimidated by
- 00:39
because its rocky but also because it's desolate Well this
- 00:43
sense is using two different adjectives to describe the same
- 00:46
thing The shore So what do we need when we're
- 00:49
using multiple words to describe something that's not a semi
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colon That might be right if we had two clauses
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that could exist on their own But neither the rocky
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nor desolate shore intimidated the sailors is a complete sentence
- 01:02
so option b is a no go She is out
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too because regular old colon doesn't make sense in this
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Spot either like it's ugly stepsister the semi colon the
- 01:10
colon is used to separate clauses and we've only got
- 01:13
one clause here so yeah we could give this answer
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option a colonoscopy All right does he have it right
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Is it possible that there is no punctuation needed here
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Now rocky and desolate need to be separated somehow Otherwise
- 01:27
it looks like rocky desolate is a single phrase Dot
- 01:30
comma will get the job done Option is our guy 00:01:33.173 --> [endTime] Looks like our ship has finally come in
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