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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 1.2 Language Conventions and Usage. Choose the option that correctly completes the sentence.


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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop dooz

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your brought to you by well organized lists If your

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shopping list is written on a paper napkin well it

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probably just doesn't qualify Read the following passage from a

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job application cover letter liam having wings global market my

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dream content Okay now click the drop down menu and

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choose the option that correctly completes this sentence on your

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options right here Okay pro tip when bragging about your

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writing skills which is basically what this passage is doing

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it's useful to show that you actually have writing skills

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you wouldn't trust a chef who can't cook right right

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And we've been there we've been one of those don't

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ask her all right if you're writing out a list

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it's important to use parallel construction this doesn't refer to

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making all the houses on your street lineup although we're

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sure the homeowners association would probably appreciate anyway Instead parallel

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construction is when you make the items in a list

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match intense and in syntax The first item in the

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writer's list is the infinitive verb too right So the

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other items should all be in the same tense any

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Verb that uses the present tense and ends with i

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n g won't match this construction and we don't want

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to not match the answer's A b and c all

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mixed the present verb tense with the infinitive which makes

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it a confusing jumble that isn't easy to read so

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let's say that for a thomas pension novel gravity's rainbow

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great novel not hard to read anyway on ly answer

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d gives us all the verbs in the same tent

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and that nice parallel construction we like So much of

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d is correct Aren't coherent list helpful because you really

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don't want to accidentally spend three hundred dollars on a

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hot rock But they're good ham and pineapple on line 00:02:03.61 --> [endTime] one No

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