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CAHSEE ELA 2.4 Writing: Modifiers and Passive Voice 190 Views
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CAHSEE ELA Writing: Modifiers and Passive Voice Drill, Problem 4. Fix this sentence.
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Here's a question for you shmoop while you wait...
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Fix this sentence: A lover of nature, it is easy to admire the
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beauty all around.
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And here are the potential answers:
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This one's about making sense of how commas affect the words around them.
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We start with the phrase:
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A lover of nature,
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But WHO is a lover of nature?
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It's kind of a non-sentence because there's no subject here.
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The phrase has to modify... someone or something. As it is, the phrase just sorta hangs there
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in the cosmos, not really relating to anything.
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But by adding a word like "as" or "being" to the front of it... you are indicating that
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there is some narrator who is describing him or herself as a lover of nature.
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So that person... whoever they are... is the one admiring the beauty all around.
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Our answer is C.
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As in, "Cosmos."
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