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CAHSEE ELA 5.4 Writing: Punctuation 194 Views

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CAHSEE ELA Writing Section: Punctuation Drill 5, Problem 4. How should the underlined portion be corrected, if at all?

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English Language

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Writing Conventions / Clauses/Phrases/Punctuation

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Here's a question you could really shmoop to...
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What should replace the underlined portion of the below sentence, if anything?
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The cat was playing with my moms scarf.
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And here are the potential answers:
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So... what is this question asking?

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It's really all about possession...
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...grammatically speaking... and how we indicate it in a normal English sentence.
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When something BELONGS to someone there's a little symbol of possession.
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This little tick mark thing. It's called an apostrophe... and think of it as having
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come from cave men who... didn't Shmoop.
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When they wanted to mark something as THEIRS -- i.e. their oversized rock, their woolly
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mammoth -- they'd put a little tick mark on it. Sure, why not.
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So in this case, the scarf belongs to mom... so we need the tick mark.
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Right here.
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It's mom's scarf.
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The answer is C.
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As in, "Cold no more..."
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