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Is it better to use a comma or a dash? Is it just personal preference? This video the technologies to reduce water usage at power plants might just give you the answer.
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Okay shmoop er's we've got another section of eleven different
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scintillating questions to test your brain Eso whether you can
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analyze writing and we're going to skin this finally titled
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technologies to reduce water usage at our planes All right
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key topics here All right so we're looking for underline
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words and thinking paranoia Clea what They mean almost like
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anyone but steam turbines and lack of power guarantees Colin
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can you notice the heating cooling towers that i lied
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about watering atmosphere of operation or other cooling like way
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back in the day A hundred billion is used for
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the unit was under active voice thing There's no way
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You're gonna cost me for killing your affect earlier That
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he's everywhere you go michael doesn't want indian temple where
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a cool design there were driving Right Chart here went
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through recirculating and dry cooling place Like i'm going to
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use that lesson there will use recycled water Okay well
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here it is First one thermo electric power generating stations
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That thing is underlines Let's Go up and find it
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in the text And it's right there in the first
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sentence Most of the electricity in the u s is
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produced using steam turbines in thermo electric power generating stations
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that use coal natural gas or nuclear power to generate
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heat All right Uh we're wondering what's wrong with that
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Well let's see subtle things here Well because the station's
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generate power they could be described as stations that are
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power generating See the little dash in there together Those
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two words function as a compound adjective so they should
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be hyphenated are conjoined when they appear before the noun
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they modified So there's a little dash thing that goes
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in there Yeah These people are really picky Who write
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the test in this case the now they modify is
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stations so it doesn't get any of the hyphenate ng
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fun The word thermo electric describes the type of power
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being generated and it can sit next to power without
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a comma hyphen or anything else Because those guys are
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accumulative adjective buds right Well without any hyphen in all
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the meaning of the descriptions kind of unclear Are the
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stations them so selves Thermo electric is the power they
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generate Thermo electric well without a trustee hyphen we can't
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be sure we could put a comma after thermo electric
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But it describes the type of power being generated In
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other words we're looking at a cumulative adjective not a
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co ordinate One came out of the coordinate smackdown Yeah
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you got to know death Speaking of things that don't
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make sense well there's also no reason at a hyphen
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between generating and stations stations is a noun announced Do
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not engage in hyphenation with adjectives They're introverts like that
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and we think that's forbidden in the bible but not 00:02:33.34 --> [endTime] sure
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