ShmoopTube

00:02

Okay sy shmoop offers another sentence up here for slicing

00:05

and dicing and editing you know let in most countries

00:08

around the world they have laws that allow women to

00:11

serve in the military All right most they something's wrong

00:16

We'll never leave up core defenseless pronoun toe defend for

00:20

itself if it's not referring to any previously stated now

00:24

and well there's a good chance it's not the answer

00:25

we're looking for right Well the first part of sense

00:28

is a dependent clause meaning it can't stand on its

00:31

own you know like cheese So our best answer choice

00:34

here isn't it independent clause that doesn't have a reference

00:38

less pronoun right So it's there are laws that allow

00:42

women to serve in the military It's d we're all

00:45

about equality here it's come up in its many forms

00:47

What's not equal here however is the pronoun in this

00:50

sense the ambiguous they doesn't tell us what's being described

00:55

right and be there Well this isn't just about throwing

00:58

in a noun like in sea and calling it a

01:00

day The laws that allow women to serve in the

01:02

military is a dependent clause and sadly too dependent clauses

01:07

Well they don't make a full sentence So that's it

01:09

it's d and yeah we're shmoop

Full Transcript