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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 3.3 Language Conventions and Usage. Which of the choices best completes the sentence?
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour brought to you by questionable capitalization like that lower
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case F everywhere in facebook Seriously like who taught mark
- 00:14
zuckerberg grammar All right First read the passage below from
- 00:18
a press release All right now click the drop down
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- 00:26
menu and choose the option that correctly completes the sins
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Yeah all right here we go Well the options are
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helping hands helping hands helping you is helping in play
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like that All right Well capitalizations important It's what business
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people do to value stock and what writers should do
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tio not seem clueless like that All right Well in
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this passage helping hand seems to be the name of
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some philanthropic organization run by the company because it's a
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proper noun it's only proper to capitalize it So answer
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is out Unless of course the website were actually made
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out of hundreds of helping hands but that would be
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creepy All right but how do we capitalize website Well
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if website here this thing we're part of the actual
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title of the website It'd be capitalized but that's pretty
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unlikely It's not like mcdonald's is called mcdonald's restaurant there's
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not just the one yeah and there's definitely no reason
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to capitalize both webb and sight unless this were the
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name of some cool spider man themed restaurant Unfortunately it
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isn't This is just unordinary website So it's lower case
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which may be the correct answer Now if only we
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could teach proper capitalization to the rest of the web
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Like seriously what is the internet have against capital letter 00:01:40.989 --> [endTime] money People
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