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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop too sure

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brought to you by commas what apostrophes turn into when

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they're feeling blue Why don't we use commas in addresses

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and hear the potential answers He's fun that's the best

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one So think about where you've seen commas in addresses

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What purpose might they serve Well we probably don't stick

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him in there just because it's fun if we wanted

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to have fun we'd go to the beach catch a

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matinee showing the latest pixar flick or count ceiling tiles

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Pretty much all those sound more fun than plugging in

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commons where they don't belong So we'll forget about option

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a what about sea Because it's what the state wants

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us to do again that doesn't seem like a very

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good reason to do something don't get us wrong state

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also wants us to file our taxes and not rob

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banks but we're happy to do those things because there's

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some rhyme and reason behind it throwing in commas willy

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nilly because the man tells us teo and we don't

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think so That brings us to option d because the

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mail won't send otherwise Well first of all keep in

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mind that we're talking about the physical mail not email

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Yeah we know seems like a pretty outdated way of

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delivering information but believe it or not some people still

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do it and no postal workers aren't too picky about

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your grammar even if you forget to come or to

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they'll still get that letter you wrote to your grammar

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grammar whatever So the answer has to be be two

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separate information Yeah the correct way to address something to

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someone is the section off each major piece of information

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with comments so no one thinks your name is John

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smith 1:2 3 main street any town yusa although you never

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know with parents nowadays be kind of a cool name

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yeah maybe not

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