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Texas EOC English I: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts Drill 3, Problem 2
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Sorry then here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by animals lint brush not included Checking the falling fast
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said you need for a strict laws against animal cruelty
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Seemed before study shut A person intentionally hurt some family
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What a jerk Although animal voices peter it was like
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it's wrong All right what change should be made in
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sentence one And here the potential answers All right well
- 00:32
what to do with a problem like sentence one Here
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we go Some people think that animal cruelty is not
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an important matter but in fact it should be taken
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very serious All right don't ask choice D yeah suggestions
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useless important and relevant mean basically the same thing in
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this end So there's no need to swap him Also
- 00:50
replacing important with relevant would then make the article and
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incorrect Yeah that's relevant starts with a continent and would
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have to change to er and all right we've wasted
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enough time with you D let's build on option b
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isn't helpful either This sense needs its common because a
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conjunction but shows contrast and is connecting Two independent clauses
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deprive this sense of its comment and we'll have a
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run on sentence on our hands would only condemn the
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sentence to be in your run on if it had
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gotten on our bad side Answer C is correct about
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the word that not being totally necessary but mixing that
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isn't going to fix what's wrong with this sentence If
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we take a advice however will be all right Well
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i'll be all right with this sense of these Anyway
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Here's the deal serious is an adjective slap an l
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y ending on it and we've got ourselves an adverb
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Seriously why do we need an adverb Because here the
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word is modifying the verb taken well adjectives aren't a
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lot of modify verbs so seriously it is everyone's paying
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attention right This is serious so we need to take 00:01:55.108 --> [endTime] it
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