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ACT Aspire English: Identifying the Best Conjunction to Connect Two Clauses 0 Views


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African American, that meant


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Okay Aspiring remembers two of twelve Next Right here We're

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focused from right here African american comma That meant let's

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go the first paragraph and see what our superhero james

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meredith has to say about it Today many people are

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running around looking for villas Mentoring is a terrible and

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a little bigger Him jail kenyan news for the heroes

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of the south The inference didn't plan to be a

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civil rights hero He just wanted to attend college He

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was african american comma That meant he would certainly face

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racial discrimination when he applied for admission to the university

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of mississippi in nineteen Sixty one Okay well let's see

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We got problems here because this summer alone in feeling

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it the first part of the sentence provides to fax

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It was nineteen sixty one and meredith was african american

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and then goes on to explain what those two facts

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meant in terms of meritus desire to attend ole miss

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Well the comma followed by that creates the dreaded comma

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slices in a like that Ready I knew it was

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wrong which obviously hasn't received all the shmoop rage mail

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that we've been sending Well instead we need to make

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an effective connections between the two parts of the sentence

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and being so connects the two clauses But it's awkward

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and ambiguous like we are like be there Give it

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to be that meaning scores even higher on the awkward

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and ambiguous scale as indeed there but well below the

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awkwardness of our middle school days We kind of hope

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on ly see avoids the dreaded it's complicated status and

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makes it clear that the second part of the sentence

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directly refers to the first So it's c right there

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and the sentence should read Uh let's see Go back

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here James meredith didn't plan to be a civil rights

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hero He just wanted to attend college He was african

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american which meant that he would certainly face racial discrimination

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You got together so that's it The answer is c

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