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Here's a question for you shmoop while you wait...

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Fix this sentence: A lover of nature, it is easy to admire the

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beauty all around.

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And here are the potential answers:

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This one's about making sense of how commas affect the words around them.

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We start with the phrase:

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A lover of nature,

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But WHO is a lover of nature?

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It's kind of a non-sentence because there's no subject here.

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The phrase has to modify... someone or something. As it is, the phrase just sorta hangs there

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in the cosmos, not really relating to anything.

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But by adding a word like "as" or "being" to the front of it... you are indicating that

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there is some narrator who is describing him or herself as a lover of nature.

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So that person... whoever they are... is the one admiring the beauty all around.

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Our answer is C.

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As in, "Cosmos."

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