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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.

Obsidian is an igneous rock. Cooling quickly enough to form very small or no crystals.


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Okay see writers next sentence up Obsidian is an igneous

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rock Not ingenious can't think cooling quickly enough to form

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very small or no crystals That's a sentence Come on

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people You can do better than that So obsidian might

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have us thinking volcanoes and handcrafted black jewelry But what

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we need to craft from this senses something grammatically correct

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That means no fragments were looking atyou cooling quickly enough

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to form very smaller no crystals Yeah that's right Adding

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that cools gives us the correct structure and preserves the

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meaning of the sentence so it should read Obsidian is

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an igneous rock that cools quickly enough to form very

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small or no crystals Got it A fragment can't stand

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on its own is a complete thought So leaving it

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alone is out of the question So yeah get rid

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of a changing the verb in inserting a comma and

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a conjunction like sea is a good start but the

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but doesn't make sense in the context of the sentence

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and it's just won t either We can't use a

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semi colon andy either because those guys only joined together

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complete ideas and this a fragment so can't be that's

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It obsidian igneous Ingenious ingenious rock should been igneous shmoop 00:01:17.885 --> [endTime] we think about that Maybe not

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