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CAHSEE 1.3 Passage Drill. Which of the following is the best way to express the meaning of the word alumni in this sentence?
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ACT English 2.4 Punctuation 467 Views
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ACT English: Punctuation Drill 2, Problem 4. Which punctuation fits best in this sentence?
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Here's your shmoop du jour, brought to you by Supermarkets. Where Superman buys his bread and milk.
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Large supermarkets frighten me however; I
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overcome my fear because I can find everything in one place.
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First of all, who gets frightened by supermarkets? God forbid they should encounter a grizzly
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bear or something ACTUALLY terrifying.
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Anyway, we know immediately that (A) and (B) have something funky going on. Let's read
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some clauses from each one.
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In A, the clause "Large supermarkets frighten me however" is not a complete sentence, and
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in B, "because I can find everything in one place" is also not a complete sentence. So
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we'll cross out these two. C seems reasonable. Well, as reasonable as
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a sentence about being afraid of supermarkets can be.
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Read the clause on each side of the semicolon. The first clause is a nice, full sentence.
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The second clause, well it's pretty darn close, but turns out it's missing a comma.
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However is a conjunction, which, when popping up at the beginning of a sentence, requires
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a comma. Those darn commas...
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D seems to have it all figured out. It's got that semicolon in the right place, and it
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uses a comma after however. Boom. D it is. Oh no, we just received word that Lex Luthor
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has taken a heat-ray to the freezer aisle. Man of Steel, you're our only hope...
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