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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by shopping one of

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the best ways to get new stuff yeah it's a bit more expensive than finding stuff [Man holding a jacket in a store]

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at the dump but you don't have to apply this random creeping seagulls those guys [Man holding jeans and seagull attacks them]

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are tough okay here's today's question how is the

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conjunction being used in this sentence you go to the grocery store and I'll go

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to the hardware store and here are potential answers aren't connecting yep

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all right if you go to the grocery store and we go to the hardware store you [Man holding grocery bag]

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better pick us up a donut or 12 as far as the actual question goes and we'll

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give you a hint the best way to figure out how the conjunction is being used is

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to figure out what it's acting on clauses phrases a stage on the Great

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White Way yeah we hear conjunction is going to be [Conjunction woman holding a dog]

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starring in a revival of Annie soon all right so let's take a second look at the

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sentence and see if we can figure out what that conjunction and is acting on

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if we look at everything that comes before and we noticed that if it wanted

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to it could strike out on its own and stand is a full sentence that means it's

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an independent clause like Santa you know when he goes to Vegas with his [Santa with elves in Vegas]

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growth alright and if we look at everything that follows and we see

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something similar yet another bit of text that could be its own full sentence [Man waiting at a bus stop]

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another independent clause well maybe this one will have better luck end up

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watching even though either these independent

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clauses could have happy fulfilling lives all on their own

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they're actually connected by a conjunction so our answer is a and hey

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that wasn't too bad certainly easier than wrestling a necklace away from a [Seagull flying over pile of trash]

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seagull and it was tough little birds [Man chasing seagull]

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