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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by seemingly good ideas like deciding

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it's probably safe to go out on the frozen pond

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Reprieve your frisbee Which punctuation mark should we add to

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this piece of dialogue to separate who's talking from what

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he or she is saying all right near the potential

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answers question mark exclamation coming period Well first of all

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carlos should really speak up He might save everyone a

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ton of heartache if he wasn't going around whispering all

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the time Man Carlos we know you've got it in

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you All right So what type of punctuation do we

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want to plug in right here Well probably not a

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question Mark carlos is stating that he doesn't think it's

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a good idea He's not asking anything And question marks

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are really only used when you're asking a question that

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surprisingly enough kind of the same deal with b an

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exclamation mark exclamation marks or used when someone's shouting or

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excited about something Not when there mumbling something under their

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breath Since we're dealing with the quiet talking carlos here

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we can get rid of option b What about dean

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A period well this might work if the line of

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dialogue wasn't followed by the words carlos said quietly a

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period always ends a sentence so because we still haven't

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found out who it is that's expressing concern about this

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if the idea we can't cop a period in there

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just yet well the best answer Guess what is c

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a comma Yeah comma can be used to separate items

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in a list but this little guy has a lot

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of duties Kamas can also separate clauses separate items in

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a list separate parts of an address and that's just

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to name a few Here we use a common to

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separate the dialogue from the explanation of who is speaking

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to make it clear what's happening without ending our sentence

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prematurely let's Hope carlos never gets a partner musical We

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really don't want to have to strain to hear him 00:01:54.103 --> [endTime] whisper singing show tunes from the back row there

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