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What is the relationship of the third and fourth sentences (lines 4–7) to the second sentence (lines 3–4)?
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- 00:05
Okay Ap yngling people next question in our legal illegal
- 00:09
drug dealing saga here that we just mumbled through what's
- 00:13
the relationship of the third and fourth sentences in lines
- 00:16
for through seven there to the second sentence in line
- 00:19
three and four Okay A lot of comparing we're going
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- 00:25
to do is let's just scroll on up tio four
- 00:28
through seven Actually just read the first program Addicts are
- 00:30
good customers wanting pay anything minutes Result Drugs on the
- 00:33
most invalid present our coffee is today the world's second
- 00:36
most valuable illegally traded international commodity Trailing on ly petroleum
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gas a single company starbucks tells more than a billion
- 00:44
dollars worth of coffee a year Americans spend more than
- 00:47
fifty billion dollars a year Okay so let's think about
- 00:50
this thing Think of these lines as an upside down
- 00:52
triangle like that They continue to get more and more
- 00:55
focused until the lines get tau one central point The
- 00:59
second sentence talked about the value of drugs is a
- 01:01
hole The third goes deeper by mentioning coffee and the
- 01:03
fourth is even more specific and addresses starbucks And it's
- 01:07
eight billion dollars a year A macchiato awfully Whatever you
- 01:10
call that all right all three sentences are about the
- 01:12
same complexity level You'll have a main independent claws and
- 01:15
one dependent clause So when we get rid of a
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right away need a refresher on these terms By the
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way check out our fine videos on the subject We
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have a whole bunch of them and the dependent clause
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independent claude's ode to a comma All that stuff all
- 01:28
three also and here these choices are fact based statements
- 01:31
so we can get rid of b and they support
- 01:33
the statement made in the second sentence So where do
- 01:36
you come from there Sharpening the focus of one idea
- 01:39
and get rid of see there the sale of legal
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drugs right We're suddenly having coffee cravings for some reason
- 01:45
but the answer here it's he They provide mohr specifications
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than the first That's what they do That's their function 00:01:52.944 --> [endTime] The triangle gets narrower more granular more specific Shmoop
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