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CAHSEE ELA 4.4 Writing Conventions. Which answer best fills in the blank?
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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by semi coghlan's what truckers used to haul a load
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of punctuation which answer best fills in the blanks Timothy
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begged her to marry him She said yes instantly Oh
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sometimes those drugs don't work All right Okay well here
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the potential answers yourself All right well we're going to
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start by just nixing choice d right No way we're
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leaving this as is its total run on sentence How
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do we know easy We've got two independent clauses stuck
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together without the proper punctuation to help him get along
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Sounds like there's just enough strive here for a reality
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show Timothy begged her to marry him She said yes
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way know that both of these clauses incense or independent
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because they have their own subject and verb I don't
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need no calls first klaus has timothy said in the
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second test she said it's all he said she said
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perfect for really just mary e even if i'm right
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all right Okay well now that we've established that we
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have two independent clauses All we need to do is
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find the answer that uses the right punctuation to stick
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them Together choice b fails miserably in this dry stick
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and independent closet together with a comma and you'll be
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stuck with a run on option c uses a colon
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Well this isn't totally wrong Colin can be used to
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connect two independent clauses however collins also imply causation which
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doesn't make surgery a sense like a would cause me
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to happen After all begging someone to marry you doesn't
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guarantee a yes well i have to go to the
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bathroom Sometimes it yes doesn't even guarantee yes but that's
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separate store him I have to go to the back
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and a fixes this run on with a semi going
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when we want to connect two independent clauses semi colons
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often do the trick You also know how to play
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dead but they find it kind of de creating Come
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on boy play dead doesn't he know i'm above this
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