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jour brought to you by lists there the passive aggressive

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alternative to communication way no we've been there All right

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First read the past from a press release Two million

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dollars in philippines tribute donations being rebuilding here right now

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click the drop down menu and choose the option that

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correctly complete sentence and the options are some medical supplies

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to people All right well if you say it the

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right way okay well maybe someone should donate some grammar

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rules to the writers of this press release because most

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of these choices completely ignore the basic rules of syntax

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Items in a list should follow parallel construction thiss in

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a sentence that donation is supposed to provide three things

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However the writer list just to now nhs food and

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water So what should logically followed next In this list

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we'll probably not a verb It doesn't matter if the

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verb is in the past present or future tense It

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still didn't doesn't and will not match the first half

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of the list If we start a list with pronouns

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well then we gotta finish it up with a noun

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To keep the list consistent and parallel answer D medical

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supplies to the people is the only option that correctly

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matches the syntax of the list It's The correct choice

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