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TSI Writing: Recognizing Dependent Clauses
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TSI Writing: Correcting Parallel Structure Between Clauses
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TSI Writing: Punctuation with Dependent Clauses
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Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.

Dr. Siddartha is quite young, she is a graduate of Michigan State.


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Okay Yes i writing shmoop another sentence for your last

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one in the section Dr siddhartha is quite young She

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is a graduate of michigan state Yes but that gymnastics

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dr rowe came from Maybe she survived Well smarty pants

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If dr siddhartha is a smarter she sounds well she

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won't like this sentence when there are two independent clauses

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that aren't closely related While we can separate them into

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two sentences with a period in a capital letter g

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what do you know Dr siddhartha is quite young She

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is a graduate of michigan state Yeah that sounds perfect

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right Okay well loser bowl This sentence as is features

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two independent clauses linked by a common so get rid

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of a which is you know bad news bears otherwise

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known as a comma supplies Inserting a conjunction would make

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it seem like the two clauses are related and of

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equal importance like in b and see which is not

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the case Dr siddhartha may be young but graduating from

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michigan state isn't closely related to this idea or american 00:01:01.697 --> [endTime] gymnastics anymore All right we're done

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