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Okay Aspiring shmoop er's Here we go Four of twelve

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here Let's just skim till we get down there Like

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the movie jaws One of the main reasons great white

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sofia is their appearance And we fix that Like the

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movie jaws They remember that was wrong They are very

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large sharks They measure up to twenty five feet long

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terrible terrible grammar All right Well since we're stuck with

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a comma can't change that See that's not yellow five

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there Well we'll need to change the structure of the

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sentence Tow fix the comus place otherwise known as what

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happens when we try to glue together two independent clauses

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with a single klaus Alright fine akama it is Have

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it your way That was kind of a subtle burger

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king And it might be tempting to narrow our choices

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to anything that adds a conjunction But we need to

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consider whether the transitions make sense in the context of

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the sentence Thie conjunction and makes it seem as though

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the sharks are large and additionally measure up to twenty

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five feet long beak That's meg ladan territory While the

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conjunction so creates the impression that the first and second

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parts of the sentence have a cause and effect type

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of relationship we can bypass all the misleading conjunction junction

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What's your function By using the i n g form

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of to measure which is the best choice here jaren

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defying it Yes so that this will read They are

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very large sharks comma measuring up to twenty five feet

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long There it's not shakespeare It's not great english but 00:01:41.418 --> [endTime] we'll do the trick for this problem

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