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Which of the following sentences provides the best description of the events in the passage?
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ACT Aspire English: Punctuating Independent and Dependent Clauses 0 Views
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the world's oceans; but they tend
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the world's oceans; but they tend
Transcript
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All right Spyros were eight of twelve here making progress
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the world's oceans But they tend I'm looking at this
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the wrong way but let's think about it all right
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It's in paragraph three and we're gonna sit down here
- 00:18
and take a look see All right great whites Apex
Full Transcript
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predator though should food chain probably private graven seal seal
- 00:23
on waller on humans and a great white charger widely
- 00:26
distribute across the world's oceans But they tended the well
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relatively close to shore in temperate waters Not too cold
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Why Because well what jesse james rob banks the act
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that's where the money is and close in All right
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so here the semicolon divides to klaus is the first
- 00:47
of which is a complete thought Okay And the second
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of which is not well since the second clause comes
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with a convenient conjunction there we could just replace the
- 00:58
semicolon with common college Today is in right there Don't
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complicate things by replacing the butt right there Notice just
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one t in it with the less logical and while
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leaving the semicolon in places that you and b don't
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just shoehorning common between the two clauses without coordinating conjunction
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there That would be a comic supplies You had double
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boo on them see So that's it The answer is
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d just a common on a semicolon Don't get all 00:01:25.573 --> [endTime] up in yourself that way Yeah
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