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Which is the best way to revise and combine sentences 1 and 2?
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Which of the following revisions best combines sentences 12 and 13?
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All right kiss i reading shmoop proves this is four
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out of five here and then we're done with this
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awesome section Yeah right Go to the question Here in
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context with following revisions Best combined senses twelve and thirteen
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So rut revisions mashes these uh pinto one rambling sentence
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Here we go So many parents and students will be
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concerned about fast food nutrition There is actually nothing to
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fear Okay we're going to mash thes and well think
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about this We don't want that period there We want
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some kind of connective device Ah think about semicolon No
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Maybe a comma and get him dash thing Maybe a
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colon there something What do we think Well there may
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be a slight oxymoron in the phrase fast food nutrition
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You know they're sort of opposite but we're going to
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let that one slide For now This was written by
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the fast food association of america Combining sentences has toe
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work much like the seeming contradictions of an oxymoron It
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has to make sense Is ah hole while maintaining its
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equal parts right Think jumbo shrimp that's like a opposites
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attract thing there Yeah the best way to separate these
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Two independent clauses is to change one of them Tio
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be a dependent clause by adding in the subordinating conjunction
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While this provides some contrast between the two ideas and
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helps the reader transition smoothly the sentence still has to
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make sense though you know we need to make sure
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that the dependent clause with weill is up front followed
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by a comma and then the independent claws right So
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the answer here is sea While many parents and students
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will be concerned about fast food nutrition come there's actually
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nothing to fear but fear itself and calories in fact
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and salt in the high blood pressure in obesity and 00:01:53.705 --> [endTime] the diabetes All right bowl stop
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