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CAHSEE ELA 3.4 Writing Conventions. Which answer best fills in the blank?


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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by school Why was school easier for cave people Less

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human history the study All right which answer best fills

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in the blank here Melody and blank went to school

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together ten years ago and here the potential answers me

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myself her eye The blank in this sense needs to

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be filled with the second half of a two part

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subject We've got melody and someone else and they're both

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equally important in the sense that melody know that she

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gets jealous Melody's feelings aside we need to look for

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the pronoun in the list That's in the subjective case

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choice see suggests the pronoun her but this is wrong

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Her is an object pronoun so it can never be

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used is the subject of a sentence We could say

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melody went to school with her but we'd never say

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her went to school with melody Well we might if

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we wanted to sound like a cave man but way

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Don't talk Option a has the same issue Asi me

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and myself are in the object of case but we're

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looking for something a little more subjective Melody might say

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The cave man kissed me and her meaning would be

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clear But if she said be kissed the cave man

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well let's be clear that she's spending too much time

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with the neanderthals Choice b takes us way off The

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path myself is also in the objective case and it's

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what's known as a reflexive pro Now that term a

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sound complicated but just think about looking into a mirror

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Melody might say I see myself in the mirror and

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she be correct but if she ever says myself see

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me in the mirror well then we know she's really

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gone back to the stone ages or she needs an

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exorcism Answer D gives us the on ly subject worthy

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pro Now we'd say i went to school right So

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why wouldn't we say melody And i went to school

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unless we were embarrassed to have graduated with a wannabe 00:02:04.3 --> [endTime] cave girl hunk or a book

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