ShmoopTube
Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.
Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos
Texas EOC English II Videos 81 videos
Want to pull an Oliver Twist and ask us for more? We've gotcha covered. Click on this link for more Texas EOC goodness. Porridge not included.
Want to pull an Oliver Twist and ask us for more? We've gotcha covered. Head over to /video/subjects/test-prep/texas-eoc-ii/texas-eoc-english-ii/ f...
Texas EOC English 2: 3.5 Editing 171 Views
Share It!
Description:
More Video Details
Transcript
- 00:00
Sorry And here's your shmoop too sure brought to you
- 00:05
by corpus christi Are we the only ones who think
- 00:08
cities with latin names sound just impressive Try following passage
- 00:12
My biggest decision I don't have anything on land gone
- 00:20
All right what's the correct way to write sentence ten
Full Transcript
- 00:24
and here the potential answer We're going to dive in
- 00:27
Here we go Yeah we've got lots of trouble and
- 00:29
sentence ten making a decision that only affects myself is
- 00:33
one thing Making a decision for my whole family is
- 00:36
something i wanted to share with my parents Oh where
- 00:40
to begin Well how bout with this misused comma Both
- 00:45
making a decision that on ly effects myself is one
- 00:48
thing And making a decision for my whole family is
- 00:52
something i wanted to share with my parents Our independent
- 00:55
clauses with their own subjects and verbs connecting them with
- 00:59
a comma turns the sentence into that dreaded grammatical error
- 01:02
known as the comma slice Knowing this also allows us
- 01:07
to quickly nick's choices d and a which make the
- 01:11
exact same mistake So no need to fry your brain
- 01:14
cells are most choice B fixes the common supply situation
- 01:17
by using a comma and the conjunction But however the
- 01:21
second half of the sentence is so garbled it's hard
- 01:24
to even know what is trying to say the phrase
- 01:26
to make a decision for my whole family and the
- 01:29
claws I wanted to share that with my parents Just
- 01:32
don't get along so choice sees correct the comma and
- 01:36
the but fix the calmest slice and on top of
- 01:39
that myself is changed too Me fixing another problem from
- 01:43
the original sentence Before we say good bye to marriage
- 01:45
paper can we just point out the gamble her parents
- 01:47
took and letting her decide where they'd moved when she
- 01:50
was a kid What if she demanded they use teo 00:01:53.218 --> [endTime] pink pony land what's that way
Related Videos
Want to pull an Oliver Twist and ask us for more? We've gotcha covered. Head over to /video/subjects/test-prep/texas-eoc-ii/texas-eoc-english-ii/ f...
Want to pull an Oliver Twist and ask us for more? We've gotcha covered. Click on this link for more Texas EOC goodness. Porridge not included.
Want to pull an Oliver Twist and ask us for more? We've gotcha covered. Click on this link for more Texas EOC goodness. Porridge not included.
Want to pull an Oliver Twist and ask us for more? We've gotcha covered. Head over to /video/subjects/test-prep/texas-eoc-ii/texas-eoc-english-ii/ f...