ShmoopTube

00:00

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

00:04

by the national endowment for the arts No wonder the

00:07

arts or write so well and out All right check

00:11

out this passage right here Any a nancy angstrom management

00:15

All right Take a look at the line from the

00:17

passage Right there Until that point the two agencies had

00:22

shared staff for budget finance and personnel management How would

00:27

you change the underlying portion if it all And here

00:30

the potential answers and yachting All right well it appears

00:34

that this sense is having colon issues Maybe he overdid

00:38

it on the jalapeno popper All right Well let's look

00:40

at our answer choices for a second here Three of

00:42

them have something in common A colon is the odd

00:46

one out The only one that seems to think we

00:48

can get away without using one So who's right Do

00:51

we need a colon or can we blow it right

00:53

out of our way List of options Well let's consult

00:56

the old dictionary Oh punctuation A colon must always follow

01:00

a complete thought and is used to separate the first

01:03

clause either from a list of clarifying items or from

01:07

a second related claws though according to that definition how

01:11

do our answer choices stack up Can we leave sense

01:14

as is no if the first claws were a complete

01:16

thought it wouldn't end in a word for that word

01:20

really tends to leave him hanging can't be option it

01:22

What about be putting the colon after the word point

01:25

double note until that point is definitely not a complete

01:28

thought So for the same reason we next b our

01:31

last hope for all colon kind is that sea is

01:34

the right answer and we plunkett colon after the word

01:37

shared er once again we've got an incomplete thought Sharing

01:41

what well taken by itself the claws prior to the

01:44

colon just doesn't make any sense If we were desperate

01:47

to use a colin we could phrase the sense this

01:49

way Until that point two agencies had shares after three

01:53

departments holen budget finance and personnel management but it isn't

01:57

really necessary Option d which just ditches the colon completely

02:01

is the best way to go here We'd suggest you

02:03

don't bother option d for at least a few hours

02:05

We know how irritable we can get after at our 00:02:08.525 --> [endTime] colon cleanse

Full Transcript