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Okay Nine of eleven Number nine Number nine Great beatles

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album The process Despite all right let's find where this

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is in the writing and figure out where the heck

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were goingto deal with it All right so we're skimming

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down here it's in this little anemic paragraph before the

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end i must confess that my father at least in

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my case failed to pass on his musical talents But

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i learned some good lessons in the process despite my

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forgettable performance Okay so he's not good on the banjo

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clearly So that just seems weird with semi colon in

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there because that should be like two different thoughts right

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Isn't that kind of what semi cones do Well the

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author admits he was no good at music That's what

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he means by my father failed to pass on his

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talents He makes that claim another way in the parenthetical

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claws at the end of the second sentence when a

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parenthetical claus comes at the end of a sentence it's

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set off with either a comma or an m dash

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That thing m dash is kind of more dramatic and

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he's kind of dramatic Kerry's emotional and a little bit

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Sad Get a musical town of dad so it's semicolon

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a here is used in place of and tow link

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to complete sentences right that's what its job is that's

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What the union covenant says it has to dio since

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the final clause of the sentence isn't it Ah full

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sentence A semicolon doesn't work though we all love creating

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tension A text message with an ellipsis the punctuation mark

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is technically meant to show that words have been left

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out Not that there's a pause in the sentence A

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colon on the other hand is used to introduce an

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idea related to the one that was just stated But

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here despite my forgettable performance is a contrast to what

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was just said So it ain't those and the answer

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is b the process dash despite all right that's it

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