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Texas EOC English 1: Editing Drill 1, Problem 2

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Sorry And here's your shmoop toos your brought to you

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by classical paintings bringing you tasteful nudity for thousands of

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years That all right check the following past age again

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This is our teacher for skimming Entire skimming was getting

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this We're gonna finish that We're done all right What

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change needs to be made to sentence too And here

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the potential answers Comet Okay so let's take a look

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at sentence number two to see how we can help

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you Least in other words the painting more or less

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looks like what it is representing huh Well isn't us

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Or is this girl kind of demanding Well just reading

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through sense too It's Obvious Something is off so let's

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Go ahead and scratch choice d off list and we'll

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do it fast before at least get snippy Eliminate option

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b changing looks to look It will only make this

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sentence worse Looks is a singular verb that goes along

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with singular noun painting Look is a floor over so

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it and painting just get along fisticuffs Option c is

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also a no go Looks as a present transfer is

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a present transfers So why would release randomly use represented

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past him huh All right Well the correct answer is

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egg in other words is an introductory klaus When these

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types of clauses kick off a sentence they should be

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separated from the rest of the sentence by a comma

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Don't worry This kind of introductory klaus is way less

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stressful than the other kind That awkward moment when we 00:01:46.688 --> [endTime] have to meet our partner's parents now

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