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Okay sy writing scuppers Next sentence Here we go The

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genie of the lamp instantly granted my wish comma standing

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neither upon ceremony nor any sort of ritual No Well

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what's wrong with that staring at it staring at it

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it's kind of staring back at us All right well

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poof How would we react if some blue dude appeared

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out of a lamp and immediately offered us whatever our

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little hearts desired And the right answer here is to

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always ask for one hundred more wishes That should be

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your first wish And yeah well we'd take that the

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second half of the senses a gerund phrase that can't

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stand alone because it's connected to an independent clause by

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akama however it's just fine where it is So the

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answer here is a placing a semi colon after wish

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like b would have Ugo is in grammatically correct because

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the geren phrase can't survive on its own in starting

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a conjunction like see what have you They won't work

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either because the connecting word can't be a phrase in

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this context and like d would have you do here

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Finally separating the second clause with period creates a sentence

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And a fragment Yeah thanks jeannie but well we're good 00:01:10.076 --> [endTime] for now yoda

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