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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke to

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shore Brought to you by doctors in training Our friend

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had one do some plastic surgery and now he sees

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through his nose Yeah That's really cool isn't it Yeah

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What happens when he sneezes The following passage They're like

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projectile tears Maybe with a kleenex wipe That thing anywhere

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Classes He kind of knows glass like little tiny glasses

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over your nostril Cool All right here we go Maria

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would like to revise sentence seven right there to make

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it more concise and effective Which of the following is

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the best revision and hear the potential answers We're just

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going to skin these here real quick We're gonna have

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to come back and re re re review Oh yeah

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we've got big problems in the original sentence Seven It

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requires four years of medical school and before that four

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years of university said he's followed by training program called

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residency Notice how the steps to becoming a doctor or

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out of chronological order under detail We need a sentence

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that shows the university studies coming first A medical school

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following next and then the residency coming last of all

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Let's See if the gods of the e e o

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c have provided us with the answer of our dreams

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Well uh not looking good So far here's uh four

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years middle school required plus bring everything We were followed

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by residency training program Well d gets the sequence of

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steps wrong and it's awkward to boot Maria shouldn't get

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near this one with a ten foot pole or five

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foot pole or any poll Really Next He does get

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the order right But it happens to be the grammatical

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no no known as a fragment Listen because you have

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to do four years of university studies for his medical

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school and residency which is training program Where is the

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subject and verb people didn't exist Problem lies with the

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word because see because is what we call a subordinate

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conjunction it's like baloo the conjunction really lowly on the

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food chain of grammar put it in front of most

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any claws and that klaus not santa get him out

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of there is instantly transformed into a subordinate clause which

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can't stand as its own sentence Got it For example

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if we wrote the sentence i ate blood sausage Well

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We have an independent clause That's Totally ok Standing on

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its own Everything's kosher Well blood sausage profit isn't kosher

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but that's what We need dramatically So now let's Add

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because to our formerly independent clause and that sentence reads

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because i ate blood Sausage feels incomplete right Well that's

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because it is it's A fragment a sporting a closet

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has to be attached to an independent claws like because

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i ate blood sausage My date for wreaked out and

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went home Okay well stop picking on being move on

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to see right there Being a doctor requires for you

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for you medical and a resident here in minutes Well

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this one's the best we've had so far It gets

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the steps in the right order and it's grammatically correct

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But if we look at sentence six we see that

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this version of sentence seven is redundant It's repetitive It

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says the same thing over and over and over and

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over again like that We've just been told that the

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path to becoming a doctor is long and difficult So

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we don't need to be reminded way get it it's

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long and difficult already The correct answer is a it

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requires four years of university studies and four years of

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medical school followed by a training program called the residency

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There we go It concisely list the steps to becoming

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a doctor in the order that they'll occur although it

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skips the breakdown maria will have in her fourth year 00:03:30.452 --> [endTime] of med school and put on all those pounds

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