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Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.

The story would have offended many people, and the paper did not print it.


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R c writing shmoop er's number sentence for you and

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analyze here let's do it The story would have offended

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many people and the paper did not print it comma

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there so things are not following smoothly here so well

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let's fix him There aren't many things that offend us

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but well censorship is one of them See how many

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books we've shmoop that people sensor crazy and improperly linked

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dependent clause is the other thing that's also offensive We're

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looking for a conjunction to begin the dependent clause here

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and demonstrate a cause and effect relationship So so is

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the best choice See we did there to be so

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the paper d so read the story would have offended

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many people so the paper did not print it See

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then that sound smoother All right loser bowl here well

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and a links the sentence without showing that the first

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claus caused the second which doesn't make grammatical or most

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semantic sense Like how would you say which did not

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printed And although doesn't convey the right kind of relationship

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either So that's it it's So the paper and let's

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sew back together those books that have been censored and 00:01:13.289 --> [endTime] ripped apart Really not cool They're blue haired ladies

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