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All right see writing shmoop er's Another sentence for you

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The horror The horror Yeah That's Who wrote that joseph

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conrad was one of the great modern masters of english

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prose However he did not learn the language untill he

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was twenty years old All right so we got a

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common issue here and some other weird things going on

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Forget all those reports about how hard it is to

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learn a foreign language is an adult If joseph conrad

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could do it well so can we Not really He

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was actually amazingly talented And we're just us okay Writing

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a literary classic in that new language on the other

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hand Well it's always nice to have goals And as

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you probably know he wrote the heart of darkness which

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is the cursor teo apocalypse now one of finest shmoop

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he's ever All right for now we'll focus on writing

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this sentence in a way That's grammatically correct The sentence

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starts with an independent claws and ends with a dependent

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clause for the simplest construction Connect these clauses together with

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the conjunction but and akama to craft a complete sentence

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So it should read Joseph conrad was one of the

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great modern masters of english prose but he did not

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learn the language untill he was twenty years old right

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So the original sense held together with a common the

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conjunctivitis adverb however however that would require surrounding however with

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both a semi colon and a comma and then now

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to get rid of a yeah so and and really

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be there but is a coordinating conjunction and shouldn't be

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separated from the independent klaus with a semicolon like indy

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So that's it today A complete sentence tomorrow heart of

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darkness to black lung the revenge baby steps right Okay 00:01:36.917 --> [endTime] that's it the shmoop er

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