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activities; finding coconuts
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- 00:03
All right A c t english aspire Er's Next up
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eight of twelve Right here Activities finding coconuts Well it's
- 00:10
right down here in paragraph four Just skim it real
- 00:13
quick I had three favorite activities finding coconuts catching lizards
- 00:18
and swimming in the ocean Well what do we think
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- 00:21
about these things All right So let's fix this The
- 00:28
statement i had three favorite activities like that julie andrews
- 00:33
thing in was something with climb every mountain All right
- 00:38
well three favorite activities Yeah it's immediately followed by a
- 00:41
list of the three activities Right Well this is a
- 00:44
good case for a colon You know the ten with
- 00:48
two dots Not kind of help you digest All right
- 00:51
Akama splits the statement which is not the effect we're
- 00:55
going for here So you're going to be and similarly
- 00:59
a period attempts to split the list into two separate
- 01:02
sentences and that wouldn't be right either However the list
- 01:06
is not a complete sentence by itself So we've got
- 01:08
to eliminate the dia's Well to the right answer here
- 01:11
It's gotta be c activities colon finding coconuts yada yada
- 01:16
Right So poland set off a nice list in a
- 01:20
very different way from how they digest coconuts All right
- 01:24
well let's see
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