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All right shmoop er's Next question Six of eleven in

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the george washington saga So we're ah the word took

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which is way down here in this paragraph right here

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You want some kind of writing something metabolic me because

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it's like that for several rejections happen because nobody's going

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to get anywhere Washington took his oath in view of

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thousands Okay so took what do you think about took

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Seems like a weird phrase and it's a weird word

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so washington doesn't take his oath until later in the

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essay right We've got a timing thing took is in

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the past tense so that not sound strange that there's

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no time machine in seventeen ninety whatever this is yeah

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So even though the story is in the past tense

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taking the o still hasn't happened yet So the best

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choice here is the conditional would or would take which

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we can use here to refer to a future event

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from the perspective of the past like it hasn't happened

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yet There's not one in a million ons he never

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takes the oath so he would take it if he

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could take it right We'll using the past tense like

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took in this paragraph jumps the action too far ahead

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in the story Yes no time travel the construction would

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have taken suggest something that could have happened in the

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past but didn't and that doesn't work here because we

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know that the oath taking did indeed happen All right

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The next choice to be had taken all right and

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that suggests that the oath taking happened before we began

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telling the story which is impossible without you know presidential

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teleportation So no time machines back then And sadly no

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time machines today because we'd love to see how dinosaurs

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were different issue Okay moving on that's it it z

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there would take by

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