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TSI Writing: Recognizing a Compound Predicate 7 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.
More than a hundred thousand people gathered in the airfield in
Paris, and greeted
Charles Lindbergh with wild enthusiasm.
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All right sy reading trumpers here's Another sentence for you
- 00:06
More than one hundred thousand people gathered in the airfield
- 00:08
in paris comma and greeted charles lindbergh with wild enthusiasm
- 00:13
on parisian did back then they loved us all right
- 00:16
Although we tend to feel more comfortable whenever commas are
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around we don't actually need one this time Thie underlying
- 00:22
portion of the sentence after paris is part of a
- 00:24
compound predicated the verbs that show the action of the
- 00:28
subject and that the predators the subject people has both
- 00:32
gathered and greeted for the predicated way Join the two
- 00:36
words together with the conjunction and and no further action
- 00:41
need be taken so it's sea and placing a common
- 00:44
between the two predicates is well just wrong like we
- 00:47
said Similarly placing a semicolon b is incorrect because and
- 00:51
greeted charles lindbergh cannot stand on its on with cheese
- 00:55
Taking out conjunction d well creates chaos with the meaning
- 00:59
of the sentence and makes it more difficult to understand
- 01:01
Maybe everyone should take an oath to stop the abuse
- 01:04
of kamas It would be better for us and better
- 01:07
for them They're like a pita of commas or something
- 01:10
All right that's it The answer is c paris and
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