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ELA Drills, Advanced: Punctuation 4. Which of the words is spelled correctly?
ELA Drills, Intermediate: Meanings 1. Choose the words that would give the sentence an "insecure" or a "confident" tone.
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ELA Drills, Intermediate: Parts of Speech Question 2. How is the conjunction being used in this sentence?
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- 00:04
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by shopping one of
- 00:07
the best ways to get new stuff yeah it's a bit more expensive than finding stuff [Man holding a jacket in a store]
- 00:12
at the dump but you don't have to apply this random creeping seagulls those guys [Man holding jeans and seagull attacks them]
- 00:16
are tough okay here's today's question how is the
- 00:19
conjunction being used in this sentence you go to the grocery store and I'll go
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- 00:25
to the hardware store and here are potential answers aren't connecting yep
- 00:30
all right if you go to the grocery store and we go to the hardware store you [Man holding grocery bag]
- 00:33
better pick us up a donut or 12 as far as the actual question goes and we'll
- 00:38
give you a hint the best way to figure out how the conjunction is being used is
- 00:41
to figure out what it's acting on clauses phrases a stage on the Great
- 00:47
White Way yeah we hear conjunction is going to be [Conjunction woman holding a dog]
- 00:50
starring in a revival of Annie soon all right so let's take a second look at the
- 00:53
sentence and see if we can figure out what that conjunction and is acting on
- 00:58
if we look at everything that comes before and we noticed that if it wanted
- 01:03
to it could strike out on its own and stand is a full sentence that means it's
- 01:08
an independent clause like Santa you know when he goes to Vegas with his [Santa with elves in Vegas]
- 01:12
growth alright and if we look at everything that follows and we see
- 01:16
something similar yet another bit of text that could be its own full sentence [Man waiting at a bus stop]
- 01:20
another independent clause well maybe this one will have better luck end up
- 01:24
watching even though either these independent
- 01:27
clauses could have happy fulfilling lives all on their own
- 01:30
they're actually connected by a conjunction so our answer is a and hey
- 01:35
that wasn't too bad certainly easier than wrestling a necklace away from a [Seagull flying over pile of trash]
- 01:38
seagull and it was tough little birds [Man chasing seagull]
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