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All right Ask firing shmoop er's Here we go We're

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on two of twelve As we zip down here through

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grammar paradise Let's check this one out All right We're

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gonna look att on my life now i know right

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here in this paragraph And well let's quickly scheme And

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one seven years and barren because of working moms out

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a game plan on living her there at the time

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i was too young to realise the effect this would

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have on my life Now i know that it shaped

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my childhood and made me the person i am today

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Alright so something clearly awkward going on there and notice

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that we fixed the what affect his affect is a

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verb in effect is a noun We just fixed it

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for you as we read through there A for free

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no extra charge That's the value you get it shmoop

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Okay well let's think about this as it's written This

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sentence is what's known as a comma slice Think of

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a comet slices Ah horrible science experiment frank Instant ian

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lee gone wrong It contains two complete thoughts stuck together

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with a comma like a cat dog Okay maybe not

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like cat dog one count two pairs of legs So

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that might be a little hard on there Anyway The

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best choice avoids the dreaded comma slice because it adds

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the conjunction but one tea to connect the two thoughts

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right So be is the right answer to read at

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the time i was too young to realise the effect

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that this would have on my life But now i

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know that it shaped my childhood Yeah gotta so that's

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it mork connector words won't necessarily for fix this place

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They'll just make things messier semi colons like here won't

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help either There's no use for semi colon before a

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dependent clause and noticed the but there So it's not

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a c or d just be And yet we're not 00:01:43.723 --> [endTime] poor shmoop

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