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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 3.4 Language Conventions and Usage. Which choice best completes the sentence?
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour brought to you by verb tense because there's a
- 00:08
difference between we'll do the laundry and did do it
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Yeah laundry way Know that phrase Okay well first read
- 00:15
the pastor blow from a press release on that spread
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- 00:21
Terrible Write that story Okay well now click to drop
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down many when choose the option that correctly completes the
- 00:28
sentence And the options are well like this Typhoon strike
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drunkard Okay while creating agreement between subjects and verbs can
- 00:41
be tricky and adding a proposition can make matters even
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more difficult in this sentence the phrase like this typhoon
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serves as a proposition a ll phrased that points out
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a similarity between this and other natural disasters This means
- 00:57
that the subject of the sentences actually natural disasters meaning
- 01:03
we've got more than just the typhoon to worry about
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So the verb of the sentence should congregate to the
- 01:08
plural disasters not the singular typhoon So this makes being
- 01:13
correct and the verb shouldn't be in the past tense
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We're talking about natural disasters happening now not in the
- 01:19
past so get rid of c and answer d striking
- 01:24
lacks a verb tense altogether It's just wrong like a
- 01:27
leopard print man bikinis is wrong Answer a correctly matches
- 01:31
the plural verb strike for the plural subject Natural disasters
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it's The correct answer See aren't you glad we took
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the timeto talk about tenses now you might want to
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take some time to address the laundry situation before that 00:01:44.938 --> [endTime] gets a little too tense as well
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