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Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.

If an accident in your parking lot did take place. Then it could be blocked off for several hours.


Transcript

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Okay See editing writing people last one in this section

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Let's Dive into the sentence here If an accident in

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your parking lot did take place then it could be

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blocked off for several hours Yeah we got a period

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problem here right If the worst thing about this accident

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is that the parking lot might be inaccessible for a

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few hours Well we guess we're ok with that Nobody

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likes seeing the jaws of life arrive on the scene

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This is a nice little cause and effect sentence between

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the dependent and independent clauses which are perfectly separated by

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a comma So the right answer here is the if

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an accident did take place comma your parking lot could

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be blocked off for several hours Right That sounds pretty

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smooth but we can't leave these sentences alone because the

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second one is a dependent clause You check out pesky

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word then that's Always a highlight for a deep end

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and claws And it can't stand on its own making

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accident The subject of the main sentence like in b

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or c instead of part of a descriptive klaus would

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mean that the accident is blocked off at the parking

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Lot Now can we just pull up some police tape

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in a column today Yeah alright so it's d we're 00:01:07.786 --> [endTime] shmoop often Well we're parked

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