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ELA Drills, Advanced: Punctuation 2. Which of the following sentences is correctly punctuated?
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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour
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Brought to you by musicians Those guys really know howto
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band together huh Which of the following sentences is correctly
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punctuated and hear the potential answers All right love dashes
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in there We got a lot of dash All right
Full Transcript
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well we wouldn't leave you without a hint Pay close
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attention to the words before and after the second dash
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and each sentence are any of them placed before the
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end of a non essential element Well first of all
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what is a non essential element and no that's Not
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just something to call your dog when you're mad at
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him Have some pity on the poor guy He was
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just trying to cuddle A non essential element is a
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phrase that if removed from a sentence wouldn't totally wrecked
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the sense like lookit sentence a and read it without
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worrying about the dashes for a second My uncle the
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guy with the glasses is very generous Well if we
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took out the guy with the glasses the sentence would
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read My uncle is very generous which is a complete
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sentence and still gets that point across It's Nice that
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we have that phrase in there to help describe the
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uncle But it is an essential however the dashes air
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before and after the guy on lee and the sentence
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my uncle with the glasses is very generous Doesn't make
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sense unless you've got a ton of uncles and only
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one of them is wearing glasses Probably not what the
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writer was going for here so we'll cross off eh
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What about c My step mother who is a nurse
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Works long hours No Once again if we were to
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pull out the middle part who is a nurse the
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sentence would still make sense But sentence c wants us
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to pull out only the words who is which ain't
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gonna cut it My stepmother a nurse works long hours
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hoof All right is d any better My father the
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tall man over there works as an accountant We'll hear
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the non essential phrase Is the tall man over there
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Not just the tall man So this option is trying
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teo short option d is out leaving us with choice
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be my cousin who is in college is a very
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talented musician who is in colleges the nonessential phrase and
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that's Exactly what surrounded by dashes So the answer has
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to be b Now please apologize to your dog If
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he doesn't stop that whimpering we might have to come 00:02:10.16 --> [endTime] up with a new name for him ourselves
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