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Conventions of Standard English Videos 35 videos

ACT Aspire English: It's All in the Past (Tense)
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ACT Aspire English: Punctuating Dependent Clauses 2 Views


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single songs; so this practice


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Okay Ask firing english literary people nine of twelve Here

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we go Technologies forever changed music industry We're going to

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go to single songs So this practice down here with

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skin paragraph three the days ago in the back story

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by moment long gone through that maintain their existence in

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no way the rector of computing digital movie people nowadays

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no longer store their musical in whatever you choose Active

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internet Well few thinking mom shmoop anymore Although some people

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do still by entire albums streaming services allow people to

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have ready access to single songs So this practice has

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become more common All right well let's think about this

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Is that akamas at a semi colon From well as

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written the sentence uses a semicolon to separate the two

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clauses in question Unfortunately the conjunction So at the beginning

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of the second clause there means that it depends on

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an independent claws to form a complete sentence Hence the

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incredibly original name of dependent clause No relation to santa

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we treat semi colons is amateur periods Yeah What comes

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after a semicolon needs to be able to stand on

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its own as a complete thought Since that's not the

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case here could replace the semicolon with a comma and

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go on with our lives But wait The conjunction is

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important but implies a contradiction that doesn't exist and therefore

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is a conjunction Adverb that doesn't connect to clauses with

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a comma So neither of these the correct choice So

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see andy just kind of get it pointed immediately So

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yeah the answer is b single songs comma So this

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practice has become more common All right that's it We're 00:01:43.402 --> [endTime] done

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