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Okay see writing shmoop uppers We've got a whole new

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section here is on coherence organization and word choice It's

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critical to understand how to properly dispose of and recycle

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electronics Kiosks available Mp three players Boy was written a

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long time ago and place your ban if you agree

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to sell the inn on route seventy Group ten devices

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second life blah blah blah All right Reading shmoop furs

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Next up in context Which sentence best combines the information

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and sentences seven eighth Approximately seventy five percent of the

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devices purchased Find a second life older broken phones are

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responsibly recycled All right so we're back here let's scroll

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up Two sentences seven and eight Our little thing here

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Okay You saw the intro paragraph and pleasured by thinking

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on cell block Okay approximately seventy five percent of the

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devices purchases finding second life right there That's what we're

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talking about seven and eight So what does that mean

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And we've already skimmed this right We didn't just glance

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at the words the t l d r right Okay

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So while it may sometimes live in the shadow of

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its cool older brother the slightly mysterious semi colon is

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actually incredibly useful It combines two related independent clauses together

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in a one single thought and that's perfect for this

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question because these two sentences have a lot to do

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with each other so that's how it should look right

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there The answer is d with a semi colon after

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second life before old sea right there just making this

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up all right and loser bowl here Yeah of course

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if we're going to use a semicolon we need do

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it right Just the thought of placing the conjunction and

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after a semicolon gives us heartburn that would be wrong

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The transition that doesn't help with the flow of ideas

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is like pouring bleach over a perfectly good burger so

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get rid of that and be and give us a

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common slice Two independent clauses joined only by comma and

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we're just playing walking out of this restaurant so yeah

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a b and c get rid of quickly if the 00:01:55.27 --> [endTime] smooth

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