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

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by nostalgia it's not what it used to be I'm

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in the good old days Nostalgia was sound all right

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Grownups to bury brothers Yeah read it and we're skimming

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it Eighteen Okay let's just go What change of any

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should be made in sentence to and here the potential

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answers All right well one glance is sentenced to and

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we know there's problem I was the oldest of three

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children We were all voice really what's that all that

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that's a problem even bigger than the problems three boys

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in one house would likely cause Anyway since we know

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there's an issue will go ahead and nick's option d

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now we've got d out of the way Let's See

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which of these options has figured out The problem with

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this sentence option a does not help situation In fact

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it makes it worse If we swapped oldest for older

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that would imply that there were a total of two

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brothers instead of three Yeah this essay is titled growing

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up with two brothers but our author John counts is

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1 of them are we also cross sea off the

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list Children and kids mean pretty much the same thing

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so trading one word for another wouldn't make any difference

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at all Thanks for nothing choice Seek world at long

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last answer But you get to the heart of the

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problem issue here is that the original senses a comus

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flights meaning that we have two independent clauses connected by

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nothing more than a measly comma I was the oldest

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of three children is an independent clause because it has

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it's own subject I in verb wass the same goes

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for we were all boys Here we is the subject

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and were is the verb So let this be a

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lesson to you john Any time you try to connect

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two independent clauses with akama will you get akama slice

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a cz be suggests One way to fix this issue

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is to replace the comma with a semi colon which

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can connect two independent closet without breaking a sweat Anybody

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else ever noticed how a semicolon looks like a period

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in a comma got together and had a kid Yeah 00:02:01.93 --> [endTime] that can happen No

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