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TSI Writing: Distinguishing Between Independent and Dependent Clauses 24 Views

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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.

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Okay sy writing shmoop er's Another sentence for you Many
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users want to download and save their favorite videos from
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websites so they can watch them later without an internet
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connection What's Wrong with that Well we hope these downloads
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include all the cat videos that todd loves so much

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that you know we've saved on Well as it turns
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out the senses actually just fine the way it is
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No common necessary The first half of the sentence Many
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blah blah websites like this part functions as an independent
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claws But the second eso blah blah blah connection is
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dependent right to have an independent married to a dependent
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and more specifically the subordinating conjunction so turns it into
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an adverb claws so no comma is necessary like b
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would have you do a semi colon A c doesn't
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work with a dependent clause and changing the subordinating conjunction
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to until changes the meaning of the whole sentence So
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you don't want that so that's it The answer is
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a and we're smoked and downloaded for offline use later
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