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Description:
Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.
Many users want to download and save their favorite videos from
websites so
they can watch them later without an Internet connection.
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- 00:03
Okay sy writing shmoop er's Another sentence for you Many
- 00:06
users want to download and save their favorite videos from
- 00:10
websites so they can watch them later without an internet
- 00:13
connection What's Wrong with that Well we hope these downloads
- 00:20
include all the cat videos that todd loves so much
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- 00:23
that you know we've saved on Well as it turns
- 00:26
out the senses actually just fine the way it is
- 00:29
No common necessary The first half of the sentence Many
- 00:32
blah blah websites like this part functions as an independent
- 00:35
claws But the second eso blah blah blah connection is
- 00:39
dependent right to have an independent married to a dependent
- 00:42
and more specifically the subordinating conjunction so turns it into
- 00:46
an adverb claws so no comma is necessary like b
- 00:50
would have you do a semi colon A c doesn't
- 00:52
work with a dependent clause and changing the subordinating conjunction
- 00:56
to until changes the meaning of the whole sentence So
- 01:00
you don't want that so that's it The answer is
- 01:02
a and we're smoked and downloaded for offline use later
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