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SAT Writing & Language: Recognizing Rules for Non-Restrictive Clauses 23 Views


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Which witch is which? Or is it that? Unravel this mess by watching our SAT Writing video.


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All right shmoop er's Yea we're on the last question

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Eleven of eleven Okay so here we go for do

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university which so here we go reading down and this

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paragraph all the way down here to tell me about

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yourself before taxes haven't beginning the beginning of time talking

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about it because i don't talk about my father investing

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in composites research by purdue university We have recently announced

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that they were going hunting without using alongside other scripts

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All right moving on So let's see this look wrong

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to you Well maybe maybe not Well because the information

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that follows which in this sentence is considered extra information

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about per do it doesn't specify which purdue or anything

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could be the chicken farm right It's classified is a

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non restrictive clause and know that spelled differently Prd they

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make fine thighs Wings right Well non restrictive klaus is

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always start with which and get akama right there to

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set him off from the rest of the sentence And

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that's exactly what's going on here already so no changes

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needed at all It was perfect winning since which in

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non restrictive clauses has a co dependent relationship with its

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comma and boy talk does better wait can't take that

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comma way Cool that with or without a comma cd

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is incorrect Since which is used for non restrictive clauses

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and that for restrictive ones So sometimes things are better 00:01:23.107 --> [endTime] left unchanged

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