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TSI Writing: Correcting Comma Splices
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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 i...

TSI Writing: Un-splice Those Commas
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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.Frida Kahlo beg...

TSI Writing: Fixing a Run-On Sentence
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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.I had to pull i...

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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.

Frida Kahlo began and ended her life in Mexico City, her home was known as the Blue House.


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Okay morty s i shmoop e writing for you here

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Here's the sentence Frida kahlo began and ended her life

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in mexico city Comma her home was known as the

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blue house right there's clearly a problem here Well frida

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kahlo was a fantastic artist so let's show her some

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respect and write about her as grammatically correctly as possible

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We can split this piece into two sentences with nothing

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but a period and some smart capitalizations age should be

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be there again in her life in mexico city period

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her home was known as the blue house Well we

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don't want to leave This sentence is it is because

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putting an independent claws on either side of a comic

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creates a comma spice So what is out because doesn't

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work is a conjunction because what one idea doesn't provide

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an explanation for the other and neither does until because

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the ideas don't follow one another chronologically So that's it

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It's b her house is blue just like that gallon

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avatar and that's where it all came from Yeah really 00:01:06.265 --> [endTime] not kidding All right let's be were smoked

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