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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 5.5 Language Conventions and Usage
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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 5.5 Language Conventions and Usage. Which choice best completes the sentence?

GED Reasoning through Language Arts 3.6 Language Conventions and Usage
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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 3.6 Language Conventions and Usage. Which choice best completes the sentence?

GED Reasoning through Language Arts 1.1 Language Conventions and Usage
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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 1.1 Language Conventions and Usage. Choose the option that correctly completes the sentence.

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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 3.1 Language Conventions and Usage. We're donating our knowledge of syntax to you. Don't worry, we got an extra for our birthday present this year. Take a look at this question and put our donation to good use.


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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by lists there the passive aggressive

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alternative to communication way no we've been there All right

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First read the past from a press release Two million

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dollars in philippines tribute donations being rebuilding here right now

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click the drop down menu and choose the option that

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correctly complete sentence and the options are some medical supplies

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to people All right well if you say it the

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right way okay well maybe someone should donate some grammar

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rules to the writers of this press release because most

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of these choices completely ignore the basic rules of syntax

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Items in a list should follow parallel construction thiss in

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a sentence that donation is supposed to provide three things

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However the writer list just to now nhs food and

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water So what should logically followed next In this list

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we'll probably not a verb It doesn't matter if the

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verb is in the past present or future tense It

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still didn't doesn't and will not match the first half

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of the list If we start a list with pronouns

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well then we gotta finish it up with a noun

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To keep the list consistent and parallel answer D medical

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supplies to the people is the only option that correctly

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matches the syntax of the list It's The correct choice

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Only every list could be so concise and clear We're

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