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Thank you We sneak then here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by sailors so nice that they could

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take some time off from sweeping the poop deck It's

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kind of gross all rights like the option that best

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completes the sentence The rocky blank desolate shore intimidated the

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sailors and hear the pencil answers All right commas and

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not okay Well here's a hint common at yeah what's

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the relationship between rocky and desolate Like what word of

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eight describing all right while there's something to mull over

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as we move forward ways we've got this shore that

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sailors are well not big fans of their intimidated by

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because its rocky but also because it's desolate Well this

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sense is using two different adjectives to describe the same

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thing The shore So what do we need when we're

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using multiple words to describe something that's not a semi

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colon That might be right if we had two clauses

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that could exist on their own But neither the rocky

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nor desolate shore intimidated the sailors is a complete sentence

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so option b is a no go She is out

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too because regular old colon doesn't make sense in this

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Spot either like it's ugly stepsister the semi colon the

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colon is used to separate clauses and we've only got

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one clause here so yeah we could give this answer

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option a colonoscopy All right does he have it right

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Is it possible that there is no punctuation needed here

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Now rocky and desolate need to be separated somehow Otherwise

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it looks like rocky desolate is a single phrase Dot

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comma will get the job done Option is our guy 00:01:33.173 --> [endTime] Looks like our ship has finally come in

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