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CAHSEE ELA 1.3 Writing Strategies. What is the best way to combine sentences 10 and 11?

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Sorry And here's your smoke do you sure Brought to

00:06

you by the grammar police We know them well like

00:10

mall security they get mad when you say they aren't

00:12

real cops checking the following passage everything you can honey

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listen world Okay what is the best way to combine

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sentences Ten and eleven right here these two and here

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the pencil answers every headline All right Well this question

00:38

is strictly about punctuation so it's time to break out

00:41

our grammar rules and celebrate Here we have what looks

00:44

like two sentences But the problem is that the second

00:47

sentence isn't a sentence at all In order for a

00:49

sense to stand alone we have to have some form

00:52

of noun or a pronoun followed by a verb that

00:54

tells us what that thing is doing The platypus swims

00:58

is a sentence The platypus is not in the fragment

01:01

and hand the word Many might work as a subject

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but we aren't told what many are doing We could

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ask ourselves Well sometimes many of both do what Since

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the second sentence can't stand on its own It's known

01:16

as a dependent clause just like a little kid crossing

01:19

the street or a needy spouse It can never be

01:21

alone So we know we can next choice d which

01:25

suggests that everything's All right as it is first a

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tragic nick the dependent clause to the first sentence with

01:31

a semi colon But this is a big no no

01:34

the grammar police get angry when somebody breaks this rule

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semi colons can only be used to connect two full

01:39

sentences a two independent clauses so across our choice a

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before the grammar cops start firing rubber bullets Option b

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thinks using the colon is a good idea but it's

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not the best answer While a colon can be used

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to connect a phrase to a full sentence it's usually

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used for emphasis here's an example There's Only one thing

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to dio confess and face the voices Who stern right

02:01

a little emphasis is needed The phrase sometimes many of

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both just doesn't need that kind of punch the colon

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implies so answer c is the way to go We

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don't need anything fancy here A simple comment connects the

02:14

dependent clause and it keeps the grammar police off our

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backs which is good since the grammar police have put 00:02:19.695 --> [endTime] it away since they got those new frosted donuts

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