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AP English Language and Composition 8.9 Passage Drill. The last sentence of the passage is an example of what?
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke too
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Sure brought to you by subordinate clauses also known as
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christmas elves All right let's look at the final sentence
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of the passage right there If ever i'm in a
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time of krypton and shivering on the final day on
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earth and here's our question the last sentence of the
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passage beginning online seventy two is an example of what
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and hear the potential answers are commissioned The best way
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to decide what kind of sentence or klaus we're dealing
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with is to see if it answers to santa or
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maybe it's to look at the definition for each answer
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and decide which best matches our sentence so let's go
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with that one are check out in saray first the
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definition of a comparative sense is a sentence that compares
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to things an example would be we absolutely love oreos
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while steve does not because he's a heartless creep Well
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the sentences comparative because it compares us normal oreo loving
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people Too weird steve Anyway if we look at the
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last sense of the passage there aren't really two different
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things being compared so we can get rid of answering
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Now let's take a look at answers cnd and elliptical
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Klaus is not an excuse to get out of a
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workout it's actually a clause where some words have been
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left out on purpose as the meaning of the sense
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can be understood without them An example would be we
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like oreos but steve doesn't we're missing the full predicated
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The second sentence without a lip says the sense would
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be we like oreos but steve doesn't like oreos The
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four clauses in our sentence don't look like they're missing
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any words so answer c is out meanwhile in independent
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clauses a clause that doesn't need mrs claus in his
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life but for our purposes it's a complete simple sense
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in our sentence the first three clauses that begin with
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the word if you need the final statement to finish
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the thought but this entire sentence is anything but simple
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there's way more than one verb and we lost count
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of the subjects x so we can cross off answer
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date and a compound senses a sentence made up of
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two independent clauses In other words one sentence made up
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of two or more smaller senses that would each be
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fine standing on their on their usually joined by coordinating
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conjunctions like and and but and can be separated with
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a period But if we took out and in this
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sense and replaced it with a period we'd be left
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with an incomplete sentence like welcome to european fellowship one
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of the audio data so we can cross off ansari
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The author uses the word if three times and then
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uses the word then kind of like when your mom
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says if you clean up your room then you can
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have your oreos unless you're steve who knows what's safe
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mom motivated him with in our sentence the author says
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that america can be welcomed into european fellowship on the
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condition that they accomplished the three things mentioned at the
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beginning of the sentence It doesn't get much more conditional
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than that so answer b is the correct choice Q
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That was exhausting Go reward yourself with some oreos Unless
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you're steve and continue living Your sad oriole is life 00:02:45.01 --> [endTime] steve
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