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Description:
Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.
Besides being essential for
chewing, the teeth
play an important role in speech.
Transcript
- 00:03
Okay see Editing shmoop ear's in the writing section here
- 00:06
Got another sentence for you to chew on This is
- 00:09
jumpin aren't besides being essential for chewing see what we
- 00:12
did there The teeth play an important role in speech
- 00:17
you know what's wrong with that sounds pretty good Actually
Full Transcript
- 00:20
Besides being essential for chewing is a dependent clause by
- 00:26
itself It's not a complete sentence It needs an independent
- 00:29
claws like a complete grammatical sentence like with a subject
- 00:32
and verb and akama to lean on And luckily it
- 00:35
already has them Would so that's it the answer's a
- 00:38
this one's good and the other choices they give you
- 00:41
Well let's see take away that common and there's nothing
- 00:44
separating the clauses so it would be you want to
- 00:47
make sure teeth is in there since it's the subject
- 00:50
of the entire sentence Right So see that's issue and
- 00:53
the independent claws at the end there still needs to
- 00:55
be a complete sentence like india so well well we
- 00:59
don't need somebody to lean on right Plead on me 00:01:03.394 --> [endTime] when you're not shopping to do
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