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TSI Writing: Working with Gerund Phrases 9 Views
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Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.
The genie of the lamp instantly granted my
wish, standing
neither upon ceremony nor any sort of ritual.
Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.
The genie of the lamp instantly granted my
wish, standing
neither upon ceremony nor any sort of ritual.
Transcript
- 00:04
Okay sy writing scuppers Next sentence Here we go The
- 00:06
genie of the lamp instantly granted my wish comma standing
- 00:11
neither upon ceremony nor any sort of ritual No Well
- 00:16
what's wrong with that staring at it staring at it
- 00:18
it's kind of staring back at us All right well
Full Transcript
- 00:21
poof How would we react if some blue dude appeared
- 00:24
out of a lamp and immediately offered us whatever our
- 00:26
little hearts desired And the right answer here is to
- 00:29
always ask for one hundred more wishes That should be
- 00:32
your first wish And yeah well we'd take that the
- 00:35
second half of the senses a gerund phrase that can't
- 00:38
stand alone because it's connected to an independent clause by
- 00:41
akama however it's just fine where it is So the
- 00:44
answer here is a placing a semi colon after wish
- 00:47
like b would have Ugo is in grammatically correct because
- 00:50
the geren phrase can't survive on its own in starting
- 00:54
a conjunction like see what have you They won't work
- 00:56
either because the connecting word can't be a phrase in
- 00:59
this context and like d would have you do here
- 01:02
Finally separating the second clause with period creates a sentence
- 01:06
And a fragment Yeah thanks jeannie but well we're good 00:01:10.076 --> [endTime] for now yoda
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