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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 the falling company Memo right there Having time

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to read this thing Uh this by william shakespeare Did

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he write this Wait No writing that good right 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 Martin sounds like a really exciting manager

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there huh All right Here the potential answers and it's

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all about whatever got announced howard stuff like that Okay

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well sometimes singular collective noun is take plural Form's like

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lots of is in the company decided amongst themselves that

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the mountain path was too dangerous amongst themselves That right

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Right But otherwise we normally treat these group now is

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as singular units as in the company band vacation days

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like he band He is singular days Got it so

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we've got a conjugating the verb to a singular subject

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Well answer C is out and now i've got to

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consider tenses meaning when did the company make this announcement

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

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wouldn't make a whole lot of sense The past perfect

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tense had also doesn't make grammatical sense here this's something

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happening in the present like that test we overslept for

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and it's going on right now so we need to

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choose a singular verb in the present which makes a

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has also announced the correct answer here's to working collectively

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to get through this problem but back to our other

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problem these baseball cards and seriously if they worth anything

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