TSI Writing: Recognizing a Compound Predicate
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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.
More than a hundred thousand people gathered in the airfield in Paris, and greeted Charles Lindbergh with wild enthusiasm.
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around we don't actually need one this time Thie underlying
portion of the sentence after paris is part of a
compound predicated the verbs that show the action of the
subject and that the predators the subject people has both
gathered and greeted for the predicated way Join the two
words together with the conjunction and and no further action
need be taken so it's sea and placing a common
between the two predicates is well just wrong like we
said Similarly placing a semicolon b is incorrect because and
greeted charles lindbergh cannot stand on its on with cheese
Taking out conjunction d well creates chaos with the meaning
of the sentence and makes it more difficult to understand
Maybe everyone should take an oath to stop the abuse
of kamas It would be better for us and better
for them They're like a pita of commas or something
All right that's it The answer is c paris and
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