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Contiluo Posted 15 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

That's how it is

Are the following sentences acceptable?

(1) Jilly heard someone burst into giggles behind the sofa.
(2) So she realized that's how it was.


  

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The second is incomplete. It requires some sort of explanatory clause in front.

  • The second is incomplete.
  • It requires some sort of explanatory clause in front.
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The second is incomplete. It requires some sort of explanatory clause in front.
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The sentences are revised as written. Are they acceptable?

(1) Later, she also heard someone burst into giggles behind the sofa.

(2) She identified it as her brother's laughing.

(3) So she realized that's how it was.
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No.

(2) She identified it as her brother's laughing, so she realized that's how it was.

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