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this one's focusing on the little phrase et here Industries

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including so let's Go find that in the writing here

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and we're skimming skimming and we go all the way

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down to paragraph three here Teaching job tito finished drinking

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going on Here comes the institute has assembled a team

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of organizations from across multiple industries comma including leading manufacturers

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materials program software developers government in academia All right so

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it's industries comma including what's the issue there Well then

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look wrong to me The comma is a wonderful punctuation

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mark that plays many roles it's setting off a subordinated

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list meaning that the items following it the types of

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industries are subordinate to the category Industries announced before it

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writes of common kind of breaks it up gives the

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reader of signal that well they're stepping down a notch

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to read details A good test of whether or not

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a comma is necessary is reading the sentence aloud or

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in your head during a test and moving your lips

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quietly without the comma beef The sentence leaves us out

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Of breath Replacing the comma with and makes includes seemed

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like a verb whose act or is the institute and

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that doesn't make sense in fact anyway and is used

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here Confuses matters since using it as a coordinating conjunction

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well in this case makes it so The list of

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industries isn't subordinate to industries overall so yeah no change

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it's fine just go chill maybe with netflix and if

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you're bored go see are owed to a freakin comma

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