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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by semi coghlan's what truckers used to haul a load

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of punctuation which answer best fills in the blanks Timothy

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begged her to marry him She said yes instantly Oh

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sometimes those drugs don't work All right Okay well here

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the potential answers yourself All right well we're going to

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start by just nixing choice d right No way we're

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leaving this as is its total run on sentence How

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do we know easy We've got two independent clauses stuck

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together without the proper punctuation to help him get along

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Sounds like there's just enough strive here for a reality

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show Timothy begged her to marry him She said yes

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way know that both of these clauses incense or independent

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because they have their own subject and verb I don't

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need no calls first klaus has timothy said in the

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second test she said it's all he said she said

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perfect for really just mary e even if i'm right

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all right Okay well now that we've established that we

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have two independent clauses All we need to do is

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find the answer that uses the right punctuation to stick

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them Together choice b fails miserably in this dry stick

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and independent closet together with a comma and you'll be

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stuck with a run on option c uses a colon

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Well this isn't totally wrong Colin can be used to

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connect two independent clauses however collins also imply causation which

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doesn't make surgery a sense like a would cause me

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to happen After all begging someone to marry you doesn't

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guarantee a yes well i have to go to the

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bathroom Sometimes it yes doesn't even guarantee yes but that's

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separate store him I have to go to the back

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and a fixes this run on with a semi going

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when we want to connect two independent clauses semi colons

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often do the trick You also know how to play

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dead but they find it kind of de creating Come

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on boy play dead doesn't he know i'm above this

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