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PSAT 1.26 Writing Diagnostic. How would you change the underlined portion, if at all?

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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour Brought to you

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by the national endowment for the arts No wonder the

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arts or write so well and out All right check

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out this passage right here Any a nancy angstrom management

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All right Take a look at the line from the

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passage Right there Until that point the two agencies had

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shared staff for budget finance and personnel management How would

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you change the underlying portion if it all And here

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the potential answers and yachting All right well it appears

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that this sense is having colon issues Maybe he overdid

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it on the jalapeno popper All right Well let's look

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at our answer choices for a second here Three of

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them have something in common A colon is the odd

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one out The only one that seems to think we

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can get away without using one So who's right Do

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we need a colon or can we blow it right

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out of our way List of options Well let's consult

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the old dictionary Oh punctuation A colon must always follow

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a complete thought and is used to separate the first

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clause either from a list of clarifying items or from

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a second related claws though according to that definition how

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do our answer choices stack up Can we leave sense

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as is no if the first claws were a complete

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thought it wouldn't end in a word for that word

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really tends to leave him hanging can't be option it

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What about be putting the colon after the word point

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double note until that point is definitely not a complete

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thought So for the same reason we next b our

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last hope for all colon kind is that sea is

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the right answer and we plunkett colon after the word

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shared er once again we've got an incomplete thought Sharing

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what well taken by itself the claws prior to the

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colon just doesn't make any sense If we were desperate

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to use a colin we could phrase the sense this

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way Until that point two agencies had shares after three

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departments holen budget finance and personnel management but it isn't

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really necessary Option d which just ditches the colon completely

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is the best way to go here We'd suggest you

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don't bother option d for at least a few hours

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We know how irritable we can get after at our 00:02:08.525 --> [endTime] colon cleanse

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