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SAT Writing and Language Drill 6.5 Conventions of Punctuation 2 Views


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Do you know what a parenthetical element is? Watch this SAT Writing video on The Well-Rounded Curriculum to find out!


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Okay s a t writing shmoop er's Here we go

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We're almost at halfway because he wrote let's go find

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it Because he wrote and it's right there it's just

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in this whole washington triumph brag anything Ooh you He

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wrote is a parenthetical element It's like ninety eight percent

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of our shmoop commentary like the one you've just heard

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explaining that the quote that follows is something washington road

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but needs to be set off with commas Ding ding

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ding well that clears up the two facts of the

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sentence that washington i asked for books because he wanted

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to encourage literature and the arts and that the quoted

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piece of writing is why we know the reason with

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a comma just after wrote there the sentence changes to

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mean that washington asked for books due to the fact

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that he rode rather than due to the fact that

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he thought it was important to encourage literature and the

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arts Likewise with no commas and right there the sentence

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changes the reasoning in a similar way Washington asked for

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books due to the fact that he wrote the quoted

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phrase that just sounds weird a single comma after because

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is incorrect because he wrote is a parenthetical piece of

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the sentence and therefore needs to be surrounded by commas

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Apparent medical by the way is a piece of the

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sentence that could be removed without changing the meaning Of

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the sentence which pretty much comprises more or less All 00:01:29.324 --> [endTime] of shmoop sorry bye

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