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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke du

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jour brought to you by products that aren't as good

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in real life Hint if you need to by now

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It's probably safe to buy Never All right First read

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the passage blow from a letter of complaint this's my

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internet services yeah people complain about their service all the

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time so we'd now click the drop down menu and

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choose the option that correctly completes the sentence and the

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options are okay Well it's not surprising The writer is

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so angry if our internet died in the middle of

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a netflix binge watching session well we'd be pretty kid

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and in that case we'd probably hopped right to our

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computers and send an angry email Uh but await the

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internet down are furious couchsurfing writer is annoyed at his

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premium internet service package which obviously fell far short of

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what should be considered premium this's a singular subject so

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it calls for a singular verb So answer is b

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and e which are conjugated to a plural subject or

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out right away Okay next one's both are correctly conjugated

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to a singular verb but the internet meltdown is a

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situation that happened in the past and is continuing into

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the future much like ben stiller never quite leaves us

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Answer is in the present tense So it's not correct

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has fallen quite short which is written in the past

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Perfect tense correctly shows that this is a past but

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still ongoing problem Now hopefully this angry letter actually resolved

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the issue because our seven angry e mails are still 00:01:30.201 --> [endTime] waiting to leave our outbox

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