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Texas EOC English I: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts Drill 3, Problem 2
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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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