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Sorry And here's your shmoop dues you're brought to you

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by run on sentences They're like the energizer bunny's of

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grammar Check the following passage at least is our teacher

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All this stuff for a conditional arm landscape motion and

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one because so cubism expressionism run Go on You know

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all these always a different style your important movement who

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accurately represent and we're done All right What change needs

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to be made to sentence fourteen and hear the potential

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answers Okay well let's begin by taking another peek its

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sense Fourteen rush chair Monet was an impressionist who explored

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his subjects through color and all of his works had

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a soft watery look Oh yeah something looks a little

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off We can begin by eliminating d like a person

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stuck in a dead end job This sense needs to

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change an option A isn't the way to fix things

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here Giving the words subjects and apostrophe s would make

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it possessive But what exactly would it possess Anything There's

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No way This one's gonna fly an option c won't

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help either Whenever we have two adjectives describing the same

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down we need two commas separating them here we have

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both soft and watery describing the noun Look So the

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commas necessary We don't want our sentences getting mushy so

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we need to keep the kama for clarity Sick The

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correct answer here is option b We need to insert

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a comma after the word Color the issue With the

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original sense is that it's a run on We've got

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two independent clauses that air improperly smushed together First we

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have Monet was an impressionist to explored his subject through

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color which is one independent Klaus then we have all

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of his works had a soft watery look Well in

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this case at least wasn't completely wrong She was right

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to use the conjunction and here but to correct the

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run on She also needs to put a comma before 00:01:57.879 --> [endTime] the conjunction By being around you must be exhausted

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