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- 00:00
Marie and here's your shmoop too sure brought to you
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by coconuts Early explorers were disappointed to discover no chocolate
- 00:10
inside now feeling almond said all right we'll check out
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the passage read it it's like the eighth time you've
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probably read it we know you're gonna memorize is such
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- 00:21
great writing all right you don't How would you correct
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this underlying segment from the passage If it all classifications
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however and here the potential answers and there's like a
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calm alert here Well the key to getting this question
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right is knowing that however is a conjunctivitis advert right
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Well it's the job of the conjunctivitis adverb to relate
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the ideas of independent clauses which are clauses that can
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stand on their own as complete sentences They're very specific
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rules about how to punctuate when using however and other
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conjunctivitis verbs like nevertheless thus and consequently if we don't
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follow these rules well we usually end up with run
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on sentences which is no bueno For example we can
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eliminate choice a for not using any punctuation at all
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We can't go around slapping independent clauses together without using
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punctuation If we did all compound sentences would be run
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on Thoughts and ideas would much together no that he
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would know what anybody else was saying in society would
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descend into anarchy We think it's best to avoid such
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things so well nix a before it causes any more
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trouble choice d does a little bit better by placing
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a comma after however it's always necessary to place a
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comma after conjunctivitis ever Whether it's connecting two independent clauses
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or kicking off an individual sense however comma choice d
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still turns this sentence into a run on by not
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placing any punctuation before the word However therefore comma will
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get rid of it before chaos ensues like de choice
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see correctly places a comma after however it veers off
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when it places akama before the conjunctivitis adverb If we
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want to use a conjunctivitis adverb to doing two independent
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clauses it's always necessary to use a semi colon comma
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is just don't cut it and neither does choice see
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the only option that correctly punctuates the senses be here
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Akama follows however and a period divides the two independent
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clauses At long last we're safe from the danger of 00:02:17.118 --> [endTime] run on at least for now