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Do you know a prepositional phrase when you see one? Take a look at this AP English Language and Composition question and find out.
AP English Language and Composition: Comprehension Drill 1, Problem 4. In lines 41 through 45, "composed" modifies which word?
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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by pablo picasso He once did a police sketch of
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a burglar and they arrested a nun a politician a
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washing machine and the eiffel tower You know it wasn't
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pretty I got fired from that job Sorry All right
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we'll check out the following passage again At least thank
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you for writing this that we have to read it
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eighty seven times Wear done and we're skimming And well
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guess what we're done What change needs to be made
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to sentence three And here the potential answers just come
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up with something all right Alisa is at it again
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in sentence number three and here people are proportionate landscapes
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contained discernible mountains trees or ocean All right well let's
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See if we can get the grammar police at bay
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Our lives would be a lot easier if choice d
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were correct If no change were necessary we could take
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the time we're about to spend on this and go
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on candy bar Something like that But sadly that's not
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case onward and upward shmoop er's Yeah option a isn't
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going to fix what's wrong with this sense at all
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It wouldn't be grammatically incorrect to change proportionate to proportioned
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but there's no need to do it In fact it
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might suddenly change the meaning of at least a sentence
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And we know how grumpy at least gets when her
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senses are unclear Pretty grumpy joyce e is a terrible
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option for one There are two commas in this sense
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and we have no idea what comma option c is
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talking about And anyway it's going to take more than
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removing akama to get this sentence on the right track
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well he is the one and only answer The problem
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here is that the sentence contains a comus place We've
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got two independent clauses each with its own subject and
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verb that are connected with nothing more than a measly
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comma right there Sorry but a comment just doesn't have
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what it takes Check it in the first clause people
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is the subject and our is the verb while in
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the second clause landscapes is the subject and contain is
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the verb right there So there you go two totally
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independent clauses spliced together with a puny comma lucky for
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release This is an easy problem to fix All we
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have to do is follow these advice and blew these
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clauses together with a semi call on instead of that
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measly comma we like to think of commas as the
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common classroom strength glue of the punctuation world Semi colons 00:02:24.885 --> [endTime] No they're more like duct tape in your brain
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