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internet, while few use


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All right a c t s fibres were on eight

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of twelve of tech news end and here we go

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internet While few use that's the focus Let's go down

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to paragraph three and just get to it The days

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of going to record sort of buy an album are

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long gone We fix that before struggling to maintain their

00:21

existence Record stores can't compete with digital streaming services Yeah

00:25

we fix that one too Thank you People nowadays no

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longer need to store their music They can listen to

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whatever they choose as long as they have access to

00:35

the internet while few you cd or vinyl records storage

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cases anymore There's something rotten in denmark here in denmark

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being a paragraph three There's the comma effectively separates the

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two clauses of the sentence The sentence is correct as

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is who actually not run not rotten at all It

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works And yes we love it When that happens they

01:01

were just pushing on you Semicolons and periods separate thoughts

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that can each stand alone you know on their own

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But the second part of this particular sense begins with

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while which is a dependent clause and definitely can't stand

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on its own unless it has a hefty pair of

01:18

training wheels like it either Yeah finally joining the two

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parts of the sentence with a comma and without any

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connector word creates a comma slice and a grammatical error

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And sometimes when you take these questions you should actually

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go through the wrong ones even if it looks okay

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to you and that there's no change stick in these

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others like they'll just sound bad like the idea that

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people nowadays bubble whatever they choose as long as they

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have access to music While few years alright we'll access

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the music give access music through the internet right That's

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the big failing on this one It's should be internet

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not music and note that in each of these they

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just have music there So that's all wrong Answer is

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a no change Everyone could just go chill and listen 00:02:00.061 --> [endTime] to some led zep Yeah

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