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Here’s your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by Japanese Tea Gardens.

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Will they be the next Starbucks? One can dream.

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How would you correct this underlined segment from the passage, if at all? where?

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And here are the potential answers...

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This question asks us to take a look at the conjunction “where” to see if it’s really

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the best thing for this sentence.

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Quick review: we know “where” is a conjunction because it’s connecting the clauses...

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“Hagiwara owned what is now called the Golden Gate Park Japanese Tea Garden”...

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and... “he served tea and fortune cookies.”

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Dude, we wish there was a restaurant like that in our neighborhood.

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We’ll zero in on choice (B) first.

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Yeah, this one is totally a no-go.

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The phrase “in that” just isn’t the right thing to connect these two clauses.

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Usually, “in that” is used to specify the way in which a statement is true.

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Something like, “I was lucky, in that I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth.” Like that would work.

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Also, it would be awesome.

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This sentence, however, requires a connector that’s about location in some way.

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Choice (C) does contain the word “location.”

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The problem is that it also contains the word “where,” which is redundant because we

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already know the tea garden is a location.

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(This is beside the point, but we also think the tea garden is a state of mind.)

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Now, on to choice (D), which suggests that we omit the word “where” entirely.

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This is incorrect because if we omitted the conjunction, the sentence would be a comma splice.

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There has to be a conjunction or a semicolon connecting these clauses;

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otherwise, they just can’t stay together.

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This brings us back to choice (A).

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It turns out that "where" was the word we needed all along. It works perfectly as a

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conjunction that indicates the location in which Hagiwara served fortune cookies.

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If you want longitude and latitude numbers, you'll need to look those up for yourself.

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