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Conjunction Junction, what really IS your function anyway? Can "but" be a conjunction? Well yes. It is. But it usually has to have a parallel structure - if you don't, it won't sing the rest of the song.
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Okay as writing strippers just two more Here we go
- 00:07
right to deprive you of the way things are going
- 00:11
nowadays as plans even unopposed Be smooth but didn't look
- 00:14
smooth You going finally after two and a half is
- 00:16
easily enough time to go but also wass figure out
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where that is And last paragraph here they're back in
- 00:25
the eagle not only was tiny cabin oil pumps and
- 00:27
bright with warning life that couldn't be dimmed but also
- 00:30
wass glowing with the intense sunshine outside huh Something sounds
- 00:35
awkward like it's not referring in the right way here
- 00:38
So we've probably got a issue and it's not a
- 00:41
let's Think about this the pair of conjunctions not on
- 00:45
ly and but also yeah the pair is a correlative
- 00:50
conjunction correlative conjunctions always come in pairs and they always
- 00:55
come in the same pair tongue's bleeding here from buddy
- 01:00
so whenever not only shows up but also will be
- 01:04
quick to follow however we still need a subject to
- 01:07
go with the verb wass and the pronoun it works
- 01:11
perfectly here so the answer is c should say but
- 01:14
it was also yeah that kind of smooth it out
- 01:18
Believe it or not let's go through the loser bowl
- 01:20
here not only but also pear signals a comparison for
- 01:25
the comparison to work There must be parallel structure in
- 01:27
each of the sentence parts without the word it which
- 01:30
we added there in the correct answer There's No parallel
- 01:33
structure in the comparison falls apart That's the case the
- 01:36
matter of the word order So get rid of being
- 01:38
the words and so suggest causation like it's Because of
- 01:43
this like so this one thing happened in So a
- 01:46
resulting thing happened and that's not the correct association between
- 01:49
the descriptions of the cabin So that can't be it
- 01:52
So what is it See but it was also
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