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- 00:00
Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour Brought to you
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by upper and lower case letters How come nobody ever
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uses middle case Yeah Ever wonder about that way Don't
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skimming mary choices Corpus christi home parents Yep We're good
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All right What change needs to be made sense ate
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- 00:18
well here Potential answers All right well first we've got
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to say no to choi city Did you take a
- 00:24
good look at this sentence The heat city had the
- 00:27
characteristics capitalized that my parents were looking for And i
- 00:32
told them that each one would be a good place
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for us to live We can't in good conscience leave
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it like this Also going to get rid of a
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it's A bad idea for mary to change each one
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to both of them Right by Well for one sense
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begins by using each to refer to the city's individually
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So to avoid confusion it's best to keep referring to
- 00:52
them in the same way Also if we replaced the
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singular each one with the plural both of them we
- 01:01
then have to change The singular would be a good
- 01:03
place to the plural would be good places Option a
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Doesn't give us this option though so it's a no
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go take heed mary you know like that old milk
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in the back of the fridge choice is best avoided
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choice See also takes us into old milk territory The
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original sense correctly connects our two independent clauses with a
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comma and a conjunction And if we change the common
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to a semicolon the conjunction and would no longer be
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needed And we really want to rob a poor conjunction
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of its sole purpose in life Really come on people
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It's not nice The correct answer is b the problem
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is that characteristics is capitalized for no good reason Like
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usually we only capitalized Proper announce like mary corpus christi
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kanye west Yeah well not sure how proper connie is
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but you get the idea anyway In this case characteristics
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is just a regular now so we need to uncap
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it Elisa de capitalize er whatever you do that it's
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just hit that sea with the shrink ray wear we 00:02:05.04 --> [endTime] go
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