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Punctuation and Usage Conventions Videos 23 videos

ACT Aspire English: It's All in the Past (Tense)
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ACT Aspire English: Identifying Correct Punctuation
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ACT Aspire English: Punctuating Dependent Clauses
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ACT Aspire English: Colon vs. Semicolon 6 Views


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strong role, if genetics


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All right Spirt shmoop er's Here we go Ten of

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twelve strong role if genetics and where do we find

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it Yes paragraph four all the way down here So

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let's skim to it Many people but a person's arm

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in my upbringing turning fifty percent genetics citizen was when

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they burned everlastingly Several more strong smooth trip Yeah but

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however her the same studies can be viewed as supporting

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the view that environment plays a strong role comma If

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genetics were solely responsible for personality than identical twins personalities

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should not just be similar but identical Wow these are

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long senses can buy a period alex for two hundred

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Yeah painful Well we're currently looking at akama slice right

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there And the only way to split these two complete

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thoughts is something we're not adding some sort of connector

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Word is with a semi colon or periods of the

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answer is c coghlan's and incorrect choice Because collins air

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used to introduce lists or sentences that somehow expand upon

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you know what comes before the colon like and be

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alright Well these senses are related but not quite in

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that way And what's more removing the punctuation from the

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sentence creates what can on ly be described as a

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nightmare of a sentence in d Yeah if they find

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frankenstein's monster of a sentence could work just as well

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there And when the answer is c strong role semicolon

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If genetics you should read it however the same side

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can be beauty supporting the view that environment plays a

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strong role Semi colon If genetics were solely responsible for

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personality than identical twins personality should not just be similar 00:01:39.302 --> [endTime] but identical All right that's it We're done

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