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ACT Aspire English: Subject-Verb Agreement 12 Views


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shows that places participants


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All right eh Spiros number two a twelve survival instincts

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on tv shows that places participants That's our focus here

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Let's came down to it recently Been around popular tv

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chun and training gonna question was about mingle Tune in

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from the original survival show survivor to the many recent

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spinoffs audiences have demonstrated endless interest in shows that places

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participants in remote areas with very little supplies terrible writing

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terrible Shmoop Well Some sentences bury their subjects not in

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a six feet under kind of way but among the

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other potential subjects which makes them difficult to find Subject

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of the phrase in question here is shows it's the

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shows that are doing the placing of the participants in

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remote locations you might seem is though the subject should

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be interest in shows But the audiences interest is not

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the subject doing the placing the participants right now that

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we've taken care of that issue it's time to address

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the real issue subject verb agreement What verbs need to

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agree with their subjects in gender number and tensed We're

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not referring toe one show like in be there but

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to multiple shows and the verb to place needs to

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be in the present tense to match the rest of

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the day Acid with a plural subject and verb combo

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shows that place like see their satisfies these requirements So

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that's our best choice in this sample of really terrible

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writing So how would that read Well like this From

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the original survival show survivor to the many recent spinoffs

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audiences have demonstrated endless interest in shows that place participants

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in remote areas with very little supplies You all right

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Terrible sentence but we're done in c is the least 00:01:57.99 --> [endTime] bad in this group

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