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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 2.1 Language Conventions and Usage. Watch this video to make sure you know how misplaced modifiers work. But if...
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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 2.1 Language Conventions and Usage. Watch this video to make sure you know how misplaced modifiers work. But if they're still misplaced, try looking where you last saw them. Because that advice is always super helpful, right?
Transcript
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour brought to you by things that don't match See
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anything you've ever bought at hot topic I will first
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read the sense below from the opening of a letter
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of recommendation right here right on the line here professor
Full Transcript
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Ready Okay now click the drop down menu and choose
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the option that correctly completes the sentence The options are
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right here Bathroom really Okay well never leave things dangling
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This includes your partner in death defying action adventure epics
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and also sentenced modifiers Note the phrase as a student
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in the first part of the sentence with the second
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half of the sins doesn't match up then we'll have
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a misplaced modifier it's important to keep our top half
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and our bottom half matching that could be embarrassing Don't
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do that because the first phrase begins with as a
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student The second phrase should also begin with a subject
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will be doesn't so it's not the right answer the
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rest of the choices all do begin with subject so
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let's figure out which one fits best as a student
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and a few professors don't match and as a student
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doesn't match with everyone either unless we're dealing with some
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weird send situation where students suddenly one with everything but
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let's assume that south case and move on well answer
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D correctly matches the first half of the sentence as
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a student with the second half i can tell you
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our top and bottom halves are matching at last low
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ray Which makes de correct And now if only we
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could get our outfits to match to vampire things Go 00:01:43.813 --> [endTime] with everything right Do you have any peace Lipstick
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