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Conventions of Standard English Videos 35 videos

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activities; finding coconuts


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All right A c t english aspire Er's Next up

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eight of twelve Right here Activities finding coconuts Well it's

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right down here in paragraph four Just skim it real

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quick I had three favorite activities finding coconuts catching lizards

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and swimming in the ocean Well what do we think

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about these things All right So let's fix this The

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statement i had three favorite activities like that julie andrews

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thing in was something with climb every mountain All right

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well three favorite activities Yeah it's immediately followed by a

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list of the three activities Right Well this is a

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good case for a colon You know the ten with

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two dots Not kind of help you digest All right

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Akama splits the statement which is not the effect we're

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going for here So you're going to be and similarly

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a period attempts to split the list into two separate

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sentences and that wouldn't be right either However the list

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is not a complete sentence by itself So we've got

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to eliminate the dia's Well to the right answer here

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It's gotta be c activities colon finding coconuts yada yada

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Right So poland set off a nice list in a

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very different way from how they digest coconuts All right

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well let's see

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