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okay SAT writing shmoopers eight of

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eleven here....[mumbling]

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focused right there on the underlying

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part dinner which was beef stew alright

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where did that come from all right so

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let's cruise through the document here

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and finally after two and a half busy [finger following sentence]

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exhilarating hours it was time to go

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they climbed back in the Eagle stowed

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the rocks and prepared the ship for

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departure then it was time for dinner

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which was beef stew and by the way

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people we're gonna point out one thing

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here that relates to a previous question

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here notice that they say they climbed

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back in the Eagle stowed to the rocks

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not stowed away the rocks and stowed the

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rock so it's interesting that they used

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correct grammar here whereas they didn't

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in the question they actually drove

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before so sometimes they give you a

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little gifts like that all right back to

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regularly-scheduled the commercial

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programming so then it was time for

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dinner which was beef stew and we're

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clearly missing something here what do

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you think that is well after a long day [astronaut walks back to spacecraft]

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of moonwalking nothing sounds better

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than a nice warm cup of beef stew we've

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never been to the moon so that's

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speculation but what we do know is the [beef stew appears]

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meaning of the clause which was beefs do

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is non restrictive meaning it's non

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essential to the meaning of the sentence

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you could cut it out and the sentence

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would still live like if it were deleted

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just go well then it was time for dinner

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yeah it could stand alone like the

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cheese as a sentence non-restrictive

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clauses are usually set off with commas

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and almost always before which you need

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one so the answer there is dinner comma

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which was beef stew let's look at the

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loser bowl here yes are you guys knowing [person holding a loser bowl]

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that dinner consisted of yummy stew

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isn't essential to the sentence so we

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know a comma is necessary so we know

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there's a change

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however the non restrictive clause only

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needs to be separated from the rest of

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the sentence no need to chop it up with

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further punctuation so

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see if a came before dinner in the

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original sentence dinner of beef stew [vegetables appear]

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would work but we plug it into the

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sentences written while it reads then it

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was time for dinner of beef stew which

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may work in some old-timey flowery weird

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British language kinda way the past

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but sounds totally out of place in the

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context and tone of this essay so that's

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it it's dinner , and chow down

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