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The comma is a wonderful punctuation mark that plays many roles. In this SAT Writing video we analyze how it can set off a subordinated list!
Conjunction Junction, what really IS your function anyway? Can "but" be a conjunction? Well yes. It is. But it usually has to have a parallel struc...
In this SAT Writing video, George Washington mopes in a carriage. Why not.
SAT Writing and Language Drill 4.7 Sentence Structure 3 Views
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Want to improve your writing quality? Watch this fun SAT Writing video to get started.
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All right people let's say t writing next up The
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convenience question Yeah it's A seven out of eleven we
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did there that was supposed to be club It was
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the best way to join the senses the underlying portion
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of your different historical fact They were based Let's find
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it here in the writing All right there we go
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Some of the rotunda architectural features such as the number
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of doors and windows differ from historical fact They were
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based on an actress catch that times everybody from every
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interest Both sentences refer to the architectural features in the
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painting but the second sentence explains the facts presented in
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the first by telling us that the features were based
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on an inaccurate sketch because the sentences share the same
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subject will weaken drop the pronoun they and connect the
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sentences using on lee And we don't need any sort
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of kama joining it altogether because well we created a
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compound predicated on one subject doing two actions not a
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compound sentence like two subjects into actions though the sentences
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are grammatically correct when separate linking them makes the connection
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between the facts they present more obvious This is really
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unusual in these test questions where they actually want you
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to insert a comma where a period normally is but
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well go figure the conjunction but in sea is used
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to introduce contrasting or contradictory statements which of these two
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sentences don't have putting the word based directly After the
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word fact makes the clause that follows unclear So yeah
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goodbye d it's Hard to tell whether it means the
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historical fact was based on the sketch or that the
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reason we know the features were inaccurate is because of
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the sketch Got it either way Well yeah it's a
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bit sketchy Answers be differ from historical fact and were 00:01:37.66 --> [endTime] based on the answer
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