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Okay Ap yngling people next question in our legal illegal

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drug dealing saga here that we just mumbled through what's

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the relationship of the third and fourth sentences in lines

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for through seven there to the second sentence in line

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three and four Okay A lot of comparing we're going

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to do is let's just scroll on up tio four

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through seven Actually just read the first program Addicts are

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good customers wanting pay anything minutes Result Drugs on the

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most invalid present our coffee is today the world's second

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most valuable illegally traded international commodity Trailing on ly petroleum

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gas a single company starbucks tells more than a billion

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dollars worth of coffee a year Americans spend more than

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fifty billion dollars a year Okay so let's think about

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this thing Think of these lines as an upside down

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triangle like that They continue to get more and more

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focused until the lines get tau one central point The

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second sentence talked about the value of drugs is a

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hole The third goes deeper by mentioning coffee and the

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fourth is even more specific and addresses starbucks And it's

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eight billion dollars a year A macchiato awfully Whatever you

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call that all right all three sentences are about the

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same complexity level You'll have a main independent claws and

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one dependent clause So when we get rid of a

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right away need a refresher on these terms By the

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way check out our fine videos on the subject We

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have a whole bunch of them and the dependent clause

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independent claude's ode to a comma All that stuff all

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three also and here these choices are fact based statements

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so we can get rid of b and they support

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the statement made in the second sentence So where do

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you come from there Sharpening the focus of one idea

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and get rid of see there the sale of legal

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drugs right We're suddenly having coffee cravings for some reason

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but the answer here it's he They provide mohr specifications

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than the first That's what they do That's their function 00:01:52.944 --> [endTime] The triangle gets narrower more granular more specific Shmoop

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