ACT Aspire English: Correcting Comma Splices with Transition Words
Choose the best alternative to the text below.
on my life, now I know
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Transcript
one seven years and barren because of working moms out
a game plan on living her there at the time
i was too young to realise the effect this would
have on my life Now i know that it shaped
my childhood and made me the person i am today
Alright so something clearly awkward going on there and notice
that we fixed the what affect his affect is a
verb in effect is a noun We just fixed it
for you as we read through there A for free
no extra charge That's the value you get it shmoop
Okay well let's think about this as it's written This
sentence is what's known as a comma slice Think of
a comet slices Ah horrible science experiment frank Instant ian
lee gone wrong It contains two complete thoughts stuck together
with a comma like a cat dog Okay maybe not
like cat dog one count two pairs of legs So
that might be a little hard on there Anyway The
best choice avoids the dreaded comma slice because it adds
the conjunction but one tea to connect the two thoughts
right So be is the right answer to read at
the time i was too young to realise the effect
that this would have on my life But now i
know that it shaped my childhood Yeah gotta so that's
it mork connector words won't necessarily for fix this place
They'll just make things messier semi colons like here won't
help either There's no use for semi colon before a
dependent clause and noticed the but there So it's not
a c or d just be And yet we're not 00:01:43.723 --> [endTime] poor shmoop