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TSI Writing: Revising a Sentence to Maintain Parallel Structure 1 Views


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Think about how you would rewrite the following sentences according to the directions given, and then choose the best answer for each. Keep in mind that your revision should not change the meaning of the original sentence.

Having a close network of social support is one effective means of reducing stress


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All right see writing shmoop for is not a sentence

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for you here tio analyze tear apart in that room

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Having a close network of social sport is one effective

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means of reducing stress and it has also been shown

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to promote better health Alright rewrite this thing with starting

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right here having a close network of social support is

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one effective means of reducing stress and see they give

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us the same thing They're so Now we've got to

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kind of change it here So what are we thinking

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I don't see a comma there or a period just

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three dot thing is well the key to this question

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is punctuation since the underlying portion is an independent claws

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with no comma or semi colon after it we can

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follow it up with another independent clause that would require

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a semicolon right to independent clauses you know get separated

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by a semi colon there and we also can't followed

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up with but and plus an independent claws and that

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would require a come if we did so adding and

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promoting doesn't require any additional punctuation So the right answer

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here is d we just means of reducing stress and

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promoting and you have got to get it right Well

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if we want a punctuation free life we can't choose

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a coordinating conjunction like in a and see there And

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connecting to independent clauses with nothing at all creates a

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nasty run in with a run on sentence like inbee

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So the answer is d and promoting and we're shmoop

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