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TSI Writing: Swapping Dependent Clauses 10 Views

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Think about how you would rewrite the following sentences according to the directions given, and then choose the best answer for each. Keep in mind that your revision should not change the meaning of the original sentence.

A deciduous tree

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Okay cite editing shmoop er's Last sentence in this section
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shedding its leaves annually The oak is a decent jewess
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tree that is found throughout the northern hemisphere All right
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we're going to rewrite this thing with a decision tree
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comma what i want to do All right without the

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comma after tree a number of the answer choices here
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would sound great however much like mosquitoes bedbugs and standardized
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tests we can't get rid of the kama oh that
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easily Instead we need to work with it The claws
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disingenuous tree is describing the oak tree which means it
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needs to be as close as possible to the noun
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it modifies the oak sheds It's is the only choice
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that fits so disingenuous tree comma The oak tree sheds
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its leaves blah blah blah blah can't follow a comma
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with a relative pronoun that as an a or b
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and found like indie won't work either We need to
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go straight to the independent claws so that's it The 00:01:06.613 --> [endTime] oak tree sheds it's shmoop pasta maybe that's it
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