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

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by animal speech What do parking fines say when they

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kiss my eyes My eyes aren't They need for strict

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laws against animal cruelty And this is not animal on

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animal cruelty Because that's just natural But this is human

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on animal Got it what's the correct way to write

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sentence five All right And here potential answers Whole bunch

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correct weighs on Does it correctly written Well let's kick

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this off by getting rid of option d Because it's

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not correctly written We loved to tell louis that his

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original sentence is perfect But who are we kidding Our

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whole purpose here is to let louis know where he

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went wrong So listen up chloe The major problem with

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sentences that the word although sets up the second part

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contradict the first But that's not what the sentence is

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trying to do Well choice a doesn't pick up on

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this and leaves although in place Weren't you listening just

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now option a there's No need for a contrast here

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were actually more on the market for cause Ality i

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wonder if we could get that on amazon All right

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he gets rid of although but then it goes on

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and adds the transition so that into the mix this

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isn't work because so that gives us a cause Ality

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that's long qi in this context answer See finally d

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want defies the sentence here although is replaced with because

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eliminating contrast and giving us the cause ality for which

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we've been looking Incidentally do you want Advises an official

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term on ly to be used by the most advanced

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