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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by conjunctions making academic papers convoluted

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and unreadable since the dawn of grammar All right well

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first read the sense below from job application letter All

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right now click on the drop down menu and choose

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the option that correctly completes the sentence All right the

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options are today and i believe in some form all

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right people listen up clauses are tricky things For example

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just how does santa claus get down the chimneys kind

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of fat all right but we're not talking about sprightly

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christmas carols here A grammatical klaus is a group of

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ward's containing a subject and verb just that that makes

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it a clause on their own But you can also

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join multiple independent clauses together like this clause in that

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clause was a conjunction such a cz and but if

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you do that you're going to need to use a

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comma in this sentence we've got two independent clauses who

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sets the subject's two sets of herbs so we're going

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to need that helpful comma to join him which means

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that answer a which is tragically comma free is not

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correct Now colin serve a lot of purposes some of

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which we won't talk about here but in a sentence

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that coleman is used to show that a second clause

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explains or enumerates upon the first which isn't happening Here

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and a semi colon is used to join two independent

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clauses when there's no conjunction But there is a conjunction

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in this ends and that means we're not using it

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Sorry semi colon will have to find something else for

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you to do So Answer b is correct because it

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uses a comma followed by a conjunction to join the

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two independent clauses correctly Next time we'll talk about dependent

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clauses That's What santa becomes when he runs out his 00:01:45.877 --> [endTime] toy money Just ask me

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