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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by the f b i not to

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be confused with the a t m i which always

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reports back to headquarters with far too many details All

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right check this passage The umpteenth time scamming guns Not

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a good thing to do people not scamming us I'm

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not scamming congressman All right we're skimming skimming scamming skimming

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not scamming And there we go How would you change

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the bolo Underlined portion of the passage if it all

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problem Not none I'm finished Lancers No change or other

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stuff Let's Just get this out of the way Upfront

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We would totally go see a movie called problem None

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by day She's on meat kindly old nun But at

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night the habit comes off and the leather jacket goes

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on She spends the wee hours kicking butt and taking

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names for god Of course Anyway we might be taking

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these words out of context Let's read him as the

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author intended There was just one problem The nun had

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little money of her own and couldn't afford all the

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advance fees So she borrowed money from family and friends

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in puerto rico in pennsylvania and then wire the money

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to various locations in the atlantic city area All of

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our answer choices here look similar So it appears this

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is nothing more than a punctuation question Well what makes

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the most sense here in the lip sees a colon

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a period or a comma Hey what's the question mark

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chopped liver while the ellipses aren't quite right because they're

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used more for a dramatic tension or if you ask

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someone with a dictionary up there in area that they

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should only be used to indicate that certain words have

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been omitted from a text Unfortunately for those sticklers ellipse

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he seemed to be inserting themselves and more and more

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places these days so they might just be out of

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luck Still it doesn't fit in this instant so we'll

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get rid of a a period is option c suggest

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could work It would be grammatically correct but is it

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the best choice While the two lines were clearly connected

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and there has to be a better way to puncture

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get him theun to separate them completely as if they're

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a couple of kennel dogs that don't get along too

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well so see is out What about d A comma

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doug No comment can perform several different functions but taking

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two clauses and turning them into a run on sentences

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not in its job description So it's not me either

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Be a colon Well that's the way to go here

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The first part of the sentence is setting up the

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second in other words we're told there's a problem colon

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And then here comes a description of the problem The

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nun didn't have much cash a lot and that is

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precisely the job of a colon that in the process

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bodily waste products Yeah that's A different story for a 00:02:41.108 --> [endTime] very different video

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