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Texas EOC English 2: 1.2 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres
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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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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

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good look at this sentence The heat city had the

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characteristics capitalized that my parents were looking for And i

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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

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them in the same way Also if we replaced the

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singular each one with the plural both of them we

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then have to change The singular would be a good

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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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