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Thank you We sneak in Sorry And here's your shmoop

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twos you're brought to you by grammar rules you break

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him you buy him or something like that at least

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a czar How many times we have to read this

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thing exactly written by shakespeare okay for thanksgiving on clubs

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blah And yet we're just done now What's the best

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way to rewrite sentence twenty three and here the potential

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answers All right well before we even start rewriting this

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sentence there's a glaring error we need to point out

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the first word in the sentence isn't capitalized and the

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first word of a sentence should always be capitalized And

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we're talking this way for emphasis Well this is one

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of the hard core grammar rules that will never been

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which is why i will never see this rule taking

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be grim yoga option egg it's the capitalization right but

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it repeats another of the original senses mistakes by beginning

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with the conjunction and now unlike capitalization role we can

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bend this one a bit when we're writing creatively we

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can totally get away with starting a sentence with a

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conjunction like butt or aunt But police is writing a

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formal paper so she doesn't have the same flexibility This

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is rotc yoga and while option c isn't necessarily incorrect

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it is unnecessarily convoluted Result Process one Well it has

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to be a better solution but unfortunately that solution is

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not option D this sense is just is tangled a

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czar headphone cords no matter how neatly we place them

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in our bag So step up your game D the

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original sense was clearer than this but thankfully we have

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option b The straightened everything out really B is just

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the original sentence minus the conjunction and turns out sometimes

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the simplest solutions are the best And sometimes there are

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no simple solutions as well In the case of our 00:01:48.464 --> [endTime] headphones

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