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All right Yes i writing shmoop er's Another one for

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you Here we go Sentence It is difficult to imagine

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anything less lively than an ordinary vegetable semi colon because

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it is fast rooted in the soil What a terrible

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sense All right Well it is a truth universally acknowledged

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that vegetables do not move people if they dio return

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them to the store immediately And whatever phil you had

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an hour earlier See your doctor We're looking for a

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transition toe further describe or better explain the first sentence

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So because is our best bet there Because it is

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fast rooted in the soil is a dependent clause so

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it needs to be set off with a comma there

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and on a semicolon So the answer is c and

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in fact is generally used to elaborate on a contrary

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point which isn't in fact what's happening here So you

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get rid of b and e there and a semi

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colon needs an independent clause on both sides So that's

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not going to fly for a sense with a dependent

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clause like in a so now how to keep the

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rabbits from hopping away with those defenseless veggies Iam look

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D'oh Is there a mad hatter around here somewhere Maybe

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not All right that's it it See where shmoop teo

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