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Sorry And here's your shmoop dooz your brought to you

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by twins Who is scooby doo's evil twin you casted

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scooby Don't all right which answer best fills in the

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blank right here Cindy and cynthia are twins Blank Always

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get mistaken for each other all right near the potential

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answers that which they do All right we're going to

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assume that cindy and cynthia are humans even though those

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might be good names for our new pet hamster Since

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we're talking about people here we can't use the word

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that because it's only used when we're talking about things

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And while we're at it we'll next option b is

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well which is also used to refer just teo things

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Option c tells us we ought to use the pronoun

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they but we can't agree it's true that they can

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be used to refer to people but if we put

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it in a blank while we'll end up with a

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run on sentence run ins happen when two independent clauses

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are crammed together without a conjunction or the right punctuation

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Like in this case cindy and cynthia are twins and

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they always get mistaken for each other These two things

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right here have their own subjects and merv's making them

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independent clauses So we need either a semi colon or

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akama followed by a conjunction to make this option grammatically

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correct Well option c doesn't give us any of this

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so it's plain wrong joyce d is the best answer

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by far unlike that or which who is used to

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refer to people and unlike the pronoun they who helps

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us avoid a run on being a relative pronoun instead

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of trying to start its own independent klaus who uses

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its relative pronoun powers to turn the final phrase into

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a dependent clause that describes the twins and we all

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know how much sinning cynthia like being described Say what

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