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by corpus christi Are we the only ones who think

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cities with latin names sound just impressive Try following passage

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My biggest decision I don't have anything on land gone

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All right what's the correct way to write sentence ten

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and here the potential answer We're going to dive in

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Here we go Yeah we've got lots of trouble and

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sentence ten making a decision that only affects myself is

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one thing Making a decision for my whole family is

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something i wanted to share with my parents Oh where

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to begin Well how bout with this misused comma Both

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making a decision that on ly effects myself is one

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thing And making a decision for my whole family is

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something i wanted to share with my parents Our independent

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clauses with their own subjects and verbs connecting them with

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a comma turns the sentence into that dreaded grammatical error

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known as the comma slice Knowing this also allows us

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to quickly nick's choices d and a which make the

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exact same mistake So no need to fry your brain

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cells are most choice B fixes the common supply situation

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by using a comma and the conjunction But however the

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second half of the sentence is so garbled it's hard

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to even know what is trying to say the phrase

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to make a decision for my whole family and the

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claws I wanted to share that with my parents Just

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don't get along so choice sees correct the comma and

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the but fix the calmest slice and on top of

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that myself is changed too Me fixing another problem from

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the original sentence Before we say good bye to marriage

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paper can we just point out the gamble her parents

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took and letting her decide where they'd moved when she

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was a kid What if she demanded they use teo 00:01:53.218 --> [endTime] pink pony land what's that way

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