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PSAT 1.9 Writing Diagnostic. How would you change the underlined portion of the passage, if at all?

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoked You

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sure brought to you by the summer solstice Finally an

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occasion on which you can honestly say you've had a

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long day All right check the passage Gotz is beginnings

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which we've only red eighteen Ready skimming forty thousand three

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thousand picture citations Any it's one level of law and

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order and oh yeah we got it really in Okay

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here we go How would you change the bolo underlined

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portion of the passage if it all north of the

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tropic of cancer and hear the potential answers changes here

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Alright well welcome to punctuation nation where no klaus ever

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ends without the proper punctuation period Here we've got a

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sentence with a clause that ends in a comma And

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the only difference between that and the other answer choices

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is that any minute piece of punctuation should it instead

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be an m dash as option b suggests or is

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c right that it should be a period Or does

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this occasion call for a semi colon is d would

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have us believe Well whatever the answer an exclamation point

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isn't one of the choices so this sentence can't be

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that exciting let's review the source sentence before we jump

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to any hasty conclusions actually signing his thirty seven miles

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to the north of the tropic of cancer The true

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distance between alexandria and signing is four hundred fifty three

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miles and not five hundred tiny life Three degrees thirty

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minutes east of the meridian of alexandra and difference of

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latitude coming alexandra and signing being seven degrees five minutes

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rather than seven degrees twelve minutes The number veritas anees

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had calculated All right so that's a mouthful but there's

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a good reason for us to read all of it

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You'll see why in a minute for starters the comic

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can't possibly be correct Comets are either used to separate

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listed items within a clause as in i went to

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the store and pick up bread milk eggs and a

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nerve super soaker or two separate clauses in a sentences

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and she brought home the groceries but drop them all

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When i doused her with water from the super soaker

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she had just purchased here we've got a siri's of

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separate distinct thoughts so a comma ain't gonna cut it

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it's not going to be an m dash because that

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type of punctuation is usually used to set off two

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phrases however because we've got numerous phrases here in list

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for me m dash in dash away So if he

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is out of the running is it c period Well

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technically that could work since we have arrived at the

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end of what could logically be considered its own sentence

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But here's where it's important that we read the entire

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thing from the beginning to the end while correct if

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we were in her place all the semi colons herewith

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periods we wind up with a very staccato unnatural sounding

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siri's of sentences that are just screaming to be tied

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together Somehow a semicolon pulls off this trick quite nicely

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which is why he is our answer And we're way 00:02:41.27 --> [endTime] more than semi sure about it will you

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