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Texas EOC English 2: 2.4 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts
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Texas EOC English 2: 4.2 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts
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Texas EOC English 2: 1.2 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres
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Sorry and here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by pronouns because anti now nes are way too negative

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for us from up to yours I'm trying the following

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passage Crow mountain Now get her feet like i am

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now owns even what change should be made in sentence

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Five All right near the potential answer placing inserting Right

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Well sentence five has more than one problem Here we

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go Let's read it State universities provide affordable education for

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state residents Many of those could not otherwise a ten

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college look Well one problem It's a comus Fleiss Yeah

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that's problem Both state universities provide affordable education for state

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residents and many of those could not otherwise attend college

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Our independent clauses with their own subjects in verb And

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we're always going to end up with a comma supplies

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if we connect to independent clauses with nothing more than

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a comma Well this nugget of knowledge lets us cross

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off a fromthe list Since shifting the verb tense doesn't

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do anything to fix the calmest life problem dodge the

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issue choice a get out of here answer b also

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refuses to deal with the comma supply situation entirely See

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that add insult to injury be also makes the sentence

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unnecessarily wordy and get rid of those all right D

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is just as bad as all the other choice is

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changing those to them does nothing to get this calm

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a slice out of our hair if somebody doesn't come

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up with a solution soon Well we're going to need

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to get the scissors out and that's not pretty All

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right Answer C saves and a while Many of those

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could not otherwise attend college is an independent klaus many

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of whom could not otherwise attend College is totally dependent

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on the first clause in the sentence that they're like

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married by changing those tto whom we turn our final

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clause into an adjective Klaus describing the state residents so

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it's ok for it to be connected to the rest

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of the sense with nothing but a comma whom is

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a fun word to say seriously just say it a

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couple times whom whom now trying and james earl jones 00:02:04.465 --> [endTime] voice who he was Darth vader Nice

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