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All right see writing shmoop for is not a sentence

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for you here tio analyze tear apart in that room

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Having a close network of social sport is one effective

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means of reducing stress and it has also been shown

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to promote better health Alright rewrite this thing with starting

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right here having a close network of social support is

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one effective means of reducing stress and see they give

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us the same thing They're so Now we've got to

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kind of change it here So what are we thinking

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I don't see a comma there or a period just

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three dot thing is well the key to this question

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is punctuation since the underlying portion is an independent claws

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with no comma or semi colon after it we can

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follow it up with another independent clause that would require

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a semicolon right to independent clauses you know get separated

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by a semi colon there and we also can't followed

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up with but and plus an independent claws and that

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would require a come if we did so adding and

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promoting doesn't require any additional punctuation So the right answer

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here is d we just means of reducing stress and

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promoting and you have got to get it right Well

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if we want a punctuation free life we can't choose

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a coordinating conjunction like in a and see there And

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connecting to independent clauses with nothing at all creates a

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nasty run in with a run on sentence like inbee

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So the answer is d and promoting and we're shmoop

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