Why is my comma wrong here?
“The weather was sunny, we decided to go to the beach.” Every word is fine and the sentence is still wrong, because each half could stand on its own.
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Why does my paragraph feel like two paragraphs?
A reader gets to the third sentence and loses the thread. Usually that is not because the writing is hard — it is because the paragraph is quietly doing two jobs at once.
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Kai found the slope through (2, 3) and (6, 11) and wrote 1/2. He divided the run by the rise.
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3.0 mol of O2 and 4.0 mol of H2: which runs out first? The ratio decides, not the smaller number.
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