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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by breakfast the most important meal of the day while

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pies a completely unacceptable choice But well for some reason

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eating a bowl full of chocolate chip cookies submerged in

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milk his totally cool All right we'll check out this

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passage Reason anybody present a student Four All right well

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how would you change the underlying portion if it all

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right there They're eating good breakfast and have been studying

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the night before And here the potential answers Okay so

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this question is all about tents which is how we

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feel when we haven't had a good breakfast Seriously you

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don't want to be around us when all we've had

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is a handful eminence and half a cup of cold

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coffee all of the answer choices here basically saying the

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same thing so it's merely a matter of lining up

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our verb tenses so they match well the original sense

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For example we're saying that the students are eating good

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breakfast but that they have been studying clearly there's something

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rotten in the state of denmark or wherever we are

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same deal adoption see which aligns are eating which have

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studied once again the tenses air odds so we can

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throw this answer choice through the world option gets us

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excited for a sec but because the tenses seemed to

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match i are eating and are studying but they went

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and changed up there to your well this writer's talking

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about students not to them So this is not from

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now on we're looking for can't be deep Well what

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about b They're eating good breakfast and are studying the

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night before yet pronoun checked matching verb tenses Check no

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out of place commas or a posture face thrown in

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there for no reason whatsoever Check he's the right answer

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So the next time you're getting ready to chow down

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on some eggs and fruit before you head to the

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testing site maybe reconsider drowning everything in new tele It

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may be delicious but well your test score is gonna

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leave a bad taste in your mouth with

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