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CAHSEE ELA 1.3 Writing Conventions. How would you correct the following sentence, if it needs correcting at all?
CAHSEE ELA 1.4 Writing Conventions. Which sentence would provide additional support that fairy tales were not intended to be ideal worlds?
CAHSEE ELA: Writing Conventions Drill 3, Problem 5. Which answer best fills in the blank?
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In this CAHSEE test question, figure out if the underlined sentence needs any correction.
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Sorry And here's her shmoop du jour brought to you
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by dancing dogs can't dance because they have two left
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feet But how would you correct the following sentence if
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it needs correcting it all And here the potential answers
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and he would have been all right Well here we
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have a conditional cause and effect situation set in the
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past Gnarly Well we'll need to proceed with caution For
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one Traveling into the past is dangerous and step on
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one butterfly and whole future might change Also we have
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to be careful to make sure these crazy past tenses
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get along with each other There's no doubt we can
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eliminate d from the list right away The tenses of
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the original sense are totally at odds We'll have dance
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is in the future Perfect and had been playing is
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in the past perfect progressive of five dollar words there
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don't use in the cocktail parties when past and future
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collide it's not a pretty picture Kind of like when
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your axe meets your new girlfriend options a and b
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get way too funky for their tents isas well both
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options mix a progressive tense with a simple tents joyce
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a mixes the progressive dancing with the simple played while
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choice be flips it mixing the simple dance with the
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progressive playing this sense is going to be way more
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peaceful If we don't mix r i n g endings
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with r e d endings Otherwise we might have to
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break out our right Here she is The only answer
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that sensible with its tenses had played is in the
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past Perfect while would have dance is in the past
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unreal conditional a tense used for talking about things that
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could happen in the past like every see the matrix
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Yeah we've got a clear cause and effect here If
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something had happened a song then something else dancing would
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have happened So if you ask us this guy's just
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making excuses for why he was afraid to dance feel 00:01:48.972 --> [endTime] it
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