If your asking the definition, defective means:
<em>Nonfunctioning; malfunctional; not working; </em>
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Example(s) of defective:
<em>"The phone came </em><u><em>defective</em></u><em> because it wouldn't turn on."</em>
<em>"My RC car came from the factory </em><u><em>defective</em></u><em>, as it won't drive."</em>
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<em>*This is not sourced from any website, book, or definitions, simply myself.*</em>
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Because you do not want to fall in that water if you are skating on a frozen pond and get hypothermia!
The book isn't mine; it's hers.
The correction that should be made in order to fix the punctuation error in the given sentence above is, replace the colon after "therefore" with a comma. Therefore, the correctly punctuated sentence would be, Leeann studied all weekend; therefore, she did well on her algebra test.