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PSAT 1.4 Writing Diagnostic. Which choice most effectively combines the two sentences in the underlined portion?
PSAT 1.5 Writing Diagnostic. How should the underlined portion be changed in the passage, if at all?
PSAT 1.3 Writing Diagnostic. To make the paragraph most logical, sentence 2 in the second paragraph should be placed...where?
Semicolon, Colon, Dashes or No Change? 174 Views
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PSAT 1.12 Writing Narrative Walkthrough. How would you change the underlined portion, if at all?
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Hurry Here's your shmoop too sure brought to you by
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the senate special subcommittee on the arts Their specialty The
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art of congressional gridlock brought to you by half a
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brain dot com All right check out this passage Any
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name of the king Pel grants All right How would
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you change the underlined portion below if at all proposed
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legislation beginning in october nineteen sixty three before the death
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of president kennedy until the bill's approval here the potential
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answers All right we're going to think through these very
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carefully Okay Hey we understand the temptation of avoid punctuation
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all together in an effort to brush quickly over kennedy's
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death We don't want to dwell on it either but
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not putting anything in there It all leaves us with
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a run on sentence so it can't possibly be right
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so we'll go ahead and blow away choice as if
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were a gunman on a grassy knoll too soon All
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right scrub that Okay Assuming we're agreed that some type
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of punctuation needs to be added to set that klaus
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apart from what comes before and after it Well what's
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our best option b seems to have good intentions but
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it's sadly misguided like our cousin gerard who keeps trying
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to get us to join the church of the holy
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ham sandwich that some of these fringe groups are really
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unbelievable be plugs a semi colon into the sentence but
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it doesn't do us much good They're used to separate
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two complete thoughts and that's not what we have here
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so beacon go see is closer to the mark but
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still not quite there it's sense is that some sort
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of punctuation should follow nineteen sixty three but using a
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colon in this spot constitutes a gross misuse of tools
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As we've learned from experience this is a huge no
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no there's too many tools in congress anyway all right
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colin is used to introduce a second part of a
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sentence which explains or expands on the first part again
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that's not what we have here so we'll eliminate seat
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dash is on the other hand are perfect for indicating
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a breakin thought like we're doing here so d has
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to be the right answer Now if you'll excuse us
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we're suddenly dealing with a colon issue so we're going 00:02:05.77 --> [endTime] to need thio dash away
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