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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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All right sy reading trumpers here's Another sentence for you

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More than one hundred thousand people gathered in the airfield

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in paris comma and greeted charles lindbergh with wild enthusiasm

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on parisian did back then they loved us all right

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Although we tend to feel more comfortable whenever commas are

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around we don't actually need one this time Thie underlying

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portion of the sentence after paris is part of a

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compound predicated the verbs that show the action of the

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subject and that the predators the subject people has both

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gathered and greeted for the predicated way Join the two

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words together with the conjunction and and no further action

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need be taken so it's sea and placing a common

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between the two predicates is well just wrong like we

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said Similarly placing a semicolon b is incorrect because and

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greeted charles lindbergh cannot stand on its on with cheese

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Taking out conjunction d well creates chaos with the meaning

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of the sentence and makes it more difficult to understand

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Maybe everyone should take an oath to stop the abuse

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of kamas It would be better for us and better

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for them They're like a pita of commas or something

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All right that's it The answer is c paris and

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greeted and we are shmoop last month as they say 00:01:16.217 --> [endTime] there

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