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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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CAHSEE ELA 3.4 Writing Conventions. Which answer best fills in the blank?
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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by school Why was school easier for cave people Less
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human history the study All right which answer best fills
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in the blank here Melody and blank went to school
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together ten years ago and here the potential answers me
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myself her eye The blank in this sense needs to
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be filled with the second half of a two part
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subject We've got melody and someone else and they're both
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equally important in the sense that melody know that she
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gets jealous Melody's feelings aside we need to look for
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the pronoun in the list That's in the subjective case
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choice see suggests the pronoun her but this is wrong
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Her is an object pronoun so it can never be
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used is the subject of a sentence We could say
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melody went to school with her but we'd never say
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her went to school with melody Well we might if
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we wanted to sound like a cave man but way
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Don't talk Option a has the same issue Asi me
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and myself are in the object of case but we're
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looking for something a little more subjective Melody might say
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The cave man kissed me and her meaning would be
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clear But if she said be kissed the cave man
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well let's be clear that she's spending too much time
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with the neanderthals Choice b takes us way off The
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path myself is also in the objective case and it's
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what's known as a reflexive pro Now that term a
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sound complicated but just think about looking into a mirror
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Melody might say I see myself in the mirror and
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she be correct but if she ever says myself see
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me in the mirror well then we know she's really
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gone back to the stone ages or she needs an
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exorcism Answer D gives us the on ly subject worthy
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pro Now we'd say i went to school right So
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why wouldn't we say melody And i went to school
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unless we were embarrassed to have graduated with a wannabe 00:02:04.3 --> [endTime] cave girl hunk or a book
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