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All right Firing shmoop er's We've got a whole bunch

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of questions for you all about technology You having forever

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changed the music industry So here we go First paragraph

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fifty years ago Difficult Imagine people will be able to

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download the stream use from the internet In fact years

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ago the internet itself was unimaginable It's ever after a

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few we live in It's a tricky thing is possible

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That's where filters down there The problem with the underline

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portion right there is that it's in the present tense

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like is is that present But the part that comes

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before it is in the past tense so things don't

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match Basically this relationship is not going to work out

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Two pieces of this sentence are different points in their

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lives that we've all gotten Those break up letters We

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generally indicate verb tenses consistent within a sentence and within

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paragraphs is well unless the context fires us to switch

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tenses Well in keeping with this aim we should avoid

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the president ten So get rid of a in favor

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of the past tense Not on ly should the tenses

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be compatible But pronoun should get along as well which

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doesn't refer to the internet Which is what the passages

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discussing it So the answer is b and it should

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read blob of love of law in elite few who

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knew that such a thing was possible So that's it 00:01:24.823 --> [endTime] no

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