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Okay shmoop furs We have a new essay writing section

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here We're starting over one to eleven questions and veterans

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dying to get into the reading So here we go

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So i wasn't waiting for coach Not early morning on

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the other hand is gonna go through this was looking

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for a way to see george washington seventy nine but

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we were looking to underline words They're white comet sale

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vessel that we're looking at me with big carriage which

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he only come for which we have this document until

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you're after final greeting adams and leaving about the scrapping

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every good dad dinner regardless he concert well that's kind

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of it So we've skimmed and now we're just going

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to go specifically look for these little underlining things and

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that's our first question One of eleven here white comma

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silk why would you have a comma between the adjective

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and the noun there that just looks strange but common

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doesn't need to be between white and sell because well

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they're acting as cumulative adjectives that is they work together

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to modify the noun stockings You could also think of

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it like this the noun is silk stockings and white

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Modifies it So when there are two adjectives in a

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row that aren't cumulative they're called co ordinate They coordinate

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and then they need a comma and example is happy

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big elephants and that's not a political statement to test

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of adjectives air co ordinate while you just rearrange them

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and put and between them sets are very clever from

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up trick You get for no extra money here if

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the phrase still make sense their coordinates If not they're

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probably cumulative right it's a coordinate the cumulative the smackdown

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in the octagon putting an and between white and silk

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makes a sentence potentially really confusing and just sounds odd

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Is washington clearing two pair of stockings one white and

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one silk has become a cool and ridiculous at the

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same time Well it also means they're not coordinate so

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they shouldn't be separated by any kind of punctuation Either

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a common or a semi colon is needed here so

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the answer is c they're white silk that's it we're 00:01:51.746 --> [endTime] done

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