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

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jour Brought to you by collective noun sze Hopefully they

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retain their value Unlike these baseball cards Yeah sadly All

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right check out the following company memo right there Having

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time to read this thing Uh this by william shakespeare

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Did he write this Wait No writing something good Sorry

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martin We're just keeping it real baby Yeah Okay here

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we go Now click down the drop down menu and

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choose the option that correctly completes the sentence This one

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right here the company blank That branch that donates the

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most toys will win three extra paid vacation days for

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two thousand fourteen And martin sounds like a really exciting

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manager there huh All right Near the potential answers and

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it's all about whatever got announced How and stuff like

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that Okay well sometimes singular collective noun is take plural

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Form's like lots of is in the company decided amongst

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themselves that's the mountain path was too dangerous amongst themselves

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That right Right But otherwise we normally treat these group

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now is as singular units as in the company band

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vacation days like he band He is singular days got

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it so we've got a conjugating the verb to a

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singular subject Well answer C is out and now i've

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got to consider tenses meaning when did the company make

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this announcement Well they're not making this announcement in the

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future that wouldn't make a whole lot of sense The

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past perfect tense had also doesn't make grammatical sense here

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this's something happening in the present like that test we

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overslept for and it's going on right now so we

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need to choose a singular verb in the present which

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makes a has also announced the correct answer here's to

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working collectively to get through this problem but back to

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our other problem these baseball cards and seriously if they 00:01:50.249 --> [endTime] worth anything

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