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Sorry And here's your smoke do you sure Brought to

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you by the grammar police We know them well like

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mall security they get mad when you say they aren't

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real cops checking the following passage everything you can honey

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listen world Okay what is the best way to combine

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sentences Ten and eleven right here these two and here

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the pencil answers every headline All right Well this question

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is strictly about punctuation so it's time to break out

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our grammar rules and celebrate Here we have what looks

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like two sentences But the problem is that the second

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sentence isn't a sentence at all In order for a

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sense to stand alone we have to have some form

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of noun or a pronoun followed by a verb that

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tells us what that thing is doing The platypus swims

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is a sentence The platypus is not in the fragment

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and hand the word Many might work as a subject

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but we aren't told what many are doing We could

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ask ourselves Well sometimes many of both do what Since

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the second sentence can't stand on its own It's known

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as a dependent clause just like a little kid crossing

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the street or a needy spouse It can never be

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alone So we know we can next choice d which

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suggests that everything's All right as it is first a

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tragic nick the dependent clause to the first sentence with

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a semi colon But this is a big no no

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the grammar police get angry when somebody breaks this rule

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semi colons can only be used to connect two full

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sentences a two independent clauses so across our choice a

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before the grammar cops start firing rubber bullets Option b

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thinks using the colon is a good idea but it's

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not the best answer While a colon can be used

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to connect a phrase to a full sentence it's usually

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used for emphasis here's an example There's Only one thing

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to dio confess and face the voices Who stern right

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a little emphasis is needed The phrase sometimes many of

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both just doesn't need that kind of punch the colon

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implies so answer c is the way to go We

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don't need anything fancy here A simple comment connects the

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dependent clause and it keeps the grammar police off our

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backs which is good since the grammar police have put 00:02:19.695 --> [endTime] it away since they got those new frosted donuts

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