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Shmoop for his s a t question three of eleven

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here and we're focusing on the little term there is

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you Okay so is use We got to find it

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here in the reading It's A little tiny phrase So

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we need a little tiny line Where are you is

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used Here it is okay for one hundred billion gallons

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of water is used for the thermal electric power generation

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And you have okay so a personal interview got gallons

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of water is used There are gallons They are used

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Doesn't that sound better So there's clearly something wrong here

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So to be or not to be That is the

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well that's Not really a question Just whether it's questioned

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letter b is the right answer right The conjugation of

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the verb to be needs to agree with one hundred

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thirty nine billion gallons of water Because that's the subject

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it's connected teo Because quote one hundred thirty nine billion

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gallons unquote is plural We need the verb to agree

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with it It's A plural conjugation So they are It

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is But they are right Well the singular version of

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to be would be correct only if water Where The

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subject that sentence That word is part of the subject

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since it's part of the hundred thirty nine billion gallons

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of water but alone It's not the subject of sentence

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opens with each day which tells us the information describes

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the present Both had been used yeah but had been

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used refers to the past and make it sound like

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the water usage is somehow different today which is not

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the case So uh that's it Don't take long showers

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