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CAHSEE ELA Writing Section: Punctuation Drill 5, Problem 4. How should the underlined portion be corrected, if at all?
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- 00:03
Here's a question you could really shmoop to...
- 00:06
What should replace the underlined portion of the below sentence, if anything?
- 00:10
The cat was playing with my moms scarf.
- 00:12
And here are the potential answers:
- 00:16
So... what is this question asking?
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- 00:18
It's really all about possession...
- 00:20
...grammatically speaking... and how we indicate it in a normal English sentence.
- 00:24
When something BELONGS to someone there's a little symbol of possession.
- 00:28
This little tick mark thing. It's called an apostrophe... and think of it as having
- 00:32
come from cave men who... didn't Shmoop.
- 00:36
When they wanted to mark something as THEIRS -- i.e. their oversized rock, their woolly
- 00:40
mammoth -- they'd put a little tick mark on it. Sure, why not.
- 00:47
So in this case, the scarf belongs to mom... so we need the tick mark.
- 00:51
Right here.
- 00:52
It's mom's scarf.
- 00:54
The answer is C.
- 00:54
As in, "Cold no more..."
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