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Texas EOC English 2: 4.2 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts
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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by texas they say everything's bigger We hope that doesn't

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apply to the fleece All right following passage my biggest

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decision marry you sing it all right we're done reading

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We're just skimming which change if any should be made

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in sentence nine all right near a potential answers and

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one of them is toe do nothing Oh snap This

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one gets tricky on us Even though my parents had

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left the decision to me i wanted to give them

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two options that i liked and leave the final decision

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to them All right let's get to it Option a

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is being particularly crafty Yeah sentences in the past tense

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so it might seem like we ought to switch to

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the present tense leave with past tense left But this

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is a trap Leave is part of the infinitive phrase

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that starts with to give So we've got to leave

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it in the president's way They're very clever Choice b

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is also trying to lead us down the road to

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ruin It wants to place a semi colon after the

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introductory phrase even though my parents had left the decision

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to me we should only use a semicolon to connect

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two independent clauses though So bi is like ten kinds

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of wrong Don't really only one kind of wrong but

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who can see you might be the worst option yet

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if we took its advice the introductory phrase would read

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despite my parents had left the decision to me like

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something from syria when she gets confused well the best

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answer is d good job Marry this sense was correct

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to begin with or practicing positive reinforcement like that emoji 00:01:32.678 --> [endTime] baby

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