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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 1.6 Language Conventions and Usage. Choose the option that correctly completes the sentence.


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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by sentence fragments because sometimes you're

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too busy to finish Sorry What Alright first read this

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sentence below from a job application letter handsy What we

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did with that about their alright drop down menu and

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choose the option incorrectly Complete sentence and hear the options

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I have skills Okay we'll run on sentences should be

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avoided because it's good to let readers take a breath

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And if you just keep going on and on and

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on well it not only makes a sentence dramatically poor

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but given that it's a job interview it kind of

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makes us sound desperate for the job which is really

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not the impression you want to make And also you

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need to punctuate properly All right we'll answer b gives

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us an almost grammatically correct run on sentence except in

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order to join two independent clauses you'd need a comma

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this thing And anyway overcaffeinated speed talking is probably not

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the impression you want to create on a job application

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Answer a gives us the same overcaffeinated effect is b

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but with an added grammatical error Remember you need punctuation

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like a period It would be better to break this

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thought in the two cents right here Both answers cnd

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attempt to do this however de violates all the rules

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of grammar by attempting to start a second sense with

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a common let's not try to violate all the rules

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People answer See breaks a thought into two senses and

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correctly uses a period It's The correct answer Don't you

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Glad we is using correct grammar uh await dark Almost 00:01:33.354 --> [endTime] did grandma good though

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