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Okay see writers next sentence up Obsidian is an igneous

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rock Not ingenious can't think cooling quickly enough to form

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very small or no crystals That's a sentence Come on

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people You can do better than that So obsidian might

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have us thinking volcanoes and handcrafted black jewelry But what

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we need to craft from this senses something grammatically correct

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That means no fragments were looking atyou cooling quickly enough

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to form very smaller no crystals Yeah that's right Adding

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that cools gives us the correct structure and preserves the

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meaning of the sentence so it should read Obsidian is

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an igneous rock that cools quickly enough to form very

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small or no crystals Got it A fragment can't stand

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on its own is a complete thought So leaving it

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alone is out of the question So yeah get rid

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of a changing the verb in inserting a comma and

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a conjunction like sea is a good start but the

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but doesn't make sense in the context of the sentence

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and it's just won t either We can't use a

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semi colon andy either because those guys only joined together

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complete ideas and this a fragment so can't be that's

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It obsidian igneous Ingenious ingenious rock should been igneous shmoop 00:01:17.885 --> [endTime] we think about that Maybe not

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