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TSI Writing: Forming a Complete Sentence from Prepositional Phrases 6 Views
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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.
Copacabana Beach, to the south of Rio de Janeiro in
Brazil, known
for its beauty and for suffering from the city's poor waste treatment.
Transcript
- 00:03
All right see Writing shmoop er's Here we go Another
- 00:06
sentence for you You were going the beach copacabana beach
- 00:08
to the south of rio de janeiro in brazil known
- 00:11
for its beauty and for suffering from the city's Poor
- 00:15
waste treatment Lovely that's What you want to hear about
Full Transcript
- 00:18
that when you're on a beach Okay we got a
- 00:20
problem here Just a run on fragment As is what
- 00:24
we're really trying hard not to be distracted by the
- 00:26
many proposition all phrase this sentence has to offer not
- 00:29
to mention the big stench of sewage wafting from the
- 00:32
second clause Wait Sentence You know it's actually just bunch
- 00:36
phrases right We have a subject the beach and a
- 00:38
bunch of descriptive phrases but no action or state of
- 00:42
being adding the verb is known makes a sentence grammatically
- 00:46
correct right there De brasil comma is known for its
- 00:49
beauty blah blah Well replacing the common with a period
- 00:52
like he would have you do creates nothing but fragments
- 00:55
And the same happens when we try to stick in
- 00:57
a semi colon it's Just two little phrasing things there
- 01:00
and there's no complete sense We also can't leave the
- 01:02
sentence as is because there's no Verbund sent a and
- 01:05
there's that really sewage floating by were afraid to look 00:01:09.522 --> [endTime] well
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