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CAHSEE ELA 4.4 Writing: Sentence Structure 523 Views

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CAHSEE ELA 4.4 Writing: Sentence Structure. What should replace the underlined portion of the following sentence, if anything?

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English Language

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Writing Conventions / Grammar/Paragraph/Sentence Structure

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Buckle up -- it's question time... What should replace the underlined portion
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of the following sentence, if anything?
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Kyle really wanted to go skateboarding and was hoping that Joe would go with him.
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And here are the potential answers:
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It's all about AND. When does it need a comma?

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The first part of the sentence is INDEPENDENT. Kyle really wanted to go skateboarding. That's it.
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It's an independent sentence. It can live on its own.
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So if we mess around with the second part, we're going to have problems.
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The "and was hoping that Joe would go with him" is a fragment -- it's a DEPENDENT clause.
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In other words, it depends on the first part to ... connect it to the land of proper grammar.
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So in this case A is wrong because this sentence doesn't need a comma -- the "and" joins it
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without needing any noted separation.
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Note that C is wrong because these evil testers left out the word "go" which would really
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mess things up.
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So the answer is D.
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As in, "Don't need to do a thing."
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