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Okay See editing writing people last one in this section

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Let's Dive into the sentence here If an accident in

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your parking lot did take place then it could be

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blocked off for several hours Yeah we got a period

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problem here right If the worst thing about this accident

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is that the parking lot might be inaccessible for a

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few hours Well we guess we're ok with that Nobody

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likes seeing the jaws of life arrive on the scene

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This is a nice little cause and effect sentence between

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the dependent and independent clauses which are perfectly separated by

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a comma So the right answer here is the if

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an accident did take place comma your parking lot could

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be blocked off for several hours Right That sounds pretty

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smooth but we can't leave these sentences alone because the

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second one is a dependent clause You check out pesky

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word then that's Always a highlight for a deep end

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and claws And it can't stand on its own making

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accident The subject of the main sentence like in b

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or c instead of part of a descriptive klaus would

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mean that the accident is blocked off at the parking

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Lot Now can we just pull up some police tape

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in a column today Yeah alright so it's d we're 00:01:07.786 --> [endTime] shmoop often Well we're parked

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