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

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Brought to you by the mona lisa for some reason

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she's Always in a much better mood than that guy

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from the screen painting Yeah what's up with that All

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right check this passage Any eh On time i mentioned

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in my e mail rome right Thanking you All right

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How did he change the underlined portion below If it

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all united states and here the potential answers All right

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what a great questions Seriously we luv this question Okay

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so what are we looking for We've got four answer

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choices that look as if they were separated at birth

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But upon closer inspection we see that each one is

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followed by a different form of punctuation period question Mark

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exclamation points and michael And what will it be Well

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let's take another look at the full sentence in which

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the words united states appears During his visit mrs kennedy

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asked mel ro if france would be willing to allow

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leonardo da vinci's mona lisa from the loop to be

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exhibited in the united states So even though mrs kennedy

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is asking a question this sentence isn't no it's just

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stating a fact that mrs kennedy asked mel row if

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he could lisa painting to the u s oh mona

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all you want shmoop a question marks not going to

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do it for us here Would an exclamation point be

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any better Probably not Unless someone's just been murdered given

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birth to octuplets or been shot out of a cannon

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or all those at the same time It's just conveying

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some info so no an exclamation point here would be

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a total overkill a semi colon Well in that instance

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our sense wouldn't be over Instead we'd be combining it

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with the following sentence and that's gonna result in a

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run on If you're heading to the gym to get

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your run on well that could be a good thing

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otherwise we want to avoid those bad boys We'll cross

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g off our list as well as it turns out

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we don't need to make any changes at all that

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this one so our answer is going to be option

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A yeah a period does the job just fine even

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if it doesn't get our blood pumping as muchas that 00:02:04.018 --> [endTime] cannon thing

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