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Punctuation and Usage Conventions Videos 23 videos

ACT Aspire English: It's All in the Past (Tense)
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ACT Aspire English: Plural v. Singular Subjects 3 Views


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the great white is seals


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All right A c t ask firas Here we go

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seven of twelve The great white is seals terrible again

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Alright paragraph three let's zoom down here The great white

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is an apex predator at the top of the ocean

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food chain A primary sources of prey for the great

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white is seals sea lions and walruses although they will

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also eat fish and turtles and human you know All

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right well some clearly rotten in denmark ocean here We

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all know about the importance of agreement because we're kind

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of hippies like that right But it's important to be

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absolutely sure that we're working with the correct subject of

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the sentence and hear the subject is sources of prey

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right there in black and white for you That's plural

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So the corresponding verbs should be r as in see

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the great white arse eels Hopefully we didn't get really

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confused and create a plural subject The great whites to

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go with the singular verb is or do our own

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thing and change the sentence of the past tense Like

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indeed that wouldn't be a very cooperative or harmonious of

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us like the hippies that we are So how does

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this read What reads like this The primary sources of

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prey for the great white are seals sea lions and

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walruses You remember chumley from tennessee tuxedo All right well

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that's it We're done you see and we'll see you 00:01:27.918 --> [endTime] later in the sea

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