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All right see Writing shmoop er's Here we go Another

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sentence for you You were going the beach copacabana beach

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to the south of rio de janeiro in brazil known

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for its beauty and for suffering from the city's Poor

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waste treatment Lovely that's What you want to hear about

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that when you're on a beach Okay we got a

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problem here Just a run on fragment As is what

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we're really trying hard not to be distracted by the

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many proposition all phrase this sentence has to offer not

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to mention the big stench of sewage wafting from the

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second clause Wait Sentence You know it's actually just bunch

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phrases right We have a subject the beach and a

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bunch of descriptive phrases but no action or state of

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being adding the verb is known makes a sentence grammatically

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correct right there De brasil comma is known for its

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beauty blah blah Well replacing the common with a period

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like he would have you do creates nothing but fragments

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And the same happens when we try to stick in

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a semi colon it's Just two little phrasing things there

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and there's no complete sense We also can't leave the

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sentence as is because there's no Verbund sent a and

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there's that really sewage floating by were afraid to look 00:01:09.522 --> [endTime] well

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