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Lorraine and here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by war zones a great place to go to get

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fired up Sorry fired at fired at We apologize for

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any inconvenience that may have cost checkout passage that go

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behind scenes The operational medics fbi his owns agents biological

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fbi Okay how would you change the underlined portion below

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if it all keep their skills sharp And here the

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pendulum answers All right well yep In times of war

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it's uber important to keep your skills sharp that way

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if you're ever caught in a sneak attack you khun

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stab the enemy with your sharp skills maybe keep a

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sharp knife handing anyway Okay so it's apparently they're they're

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they're kind of day this one's right up there with

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comma placement and eating grandma So hopefully we've got this

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one down by now Let's Review the first sentence in

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question here Real quick that's Why ahmed personnel are highly

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valued and why they trained to keep their skills sharp

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even though it's a collateral duty Okay so we're talking

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about the skills of the op med personnel there with

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an apostrophe Skills is the same as saying they are

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skills So unless we want to get tossed in the

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loony bin you probably should not phrase stuff that way

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and while we're at it maybe stop referring to ourselves

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in third person as well Similarly d would also cause

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people to question our sanity there Th r ee means

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like over there not here which is where option d

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should go quite honestly Now stay our option b is

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close in that it uses its a possessive determiner but

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it's used to refer to a single thing that possesses

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something since we're talking about personnel that implies multiple people

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so it doesn't quite agree with our referent alright so

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although to be fair it's tough to get multiple people

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degree on anything for us is we've been there around

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here All right We'll see we'll work They're t h

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e r is another possessive determiner but implies multiple people

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doing the possessing as for the other answer choices were

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going to disregard their suggestions as they're clearly wrong and

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go with that one there instead Oh you're not more 00:02:17.043 --> [endTime] confused than ever now are you uh there there

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