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Texas EOC English I: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts Drill 3, Problem 2
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Texas EOC English I: Editing Drill 2, Problem 9
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- 00:00
Sorry And here's your shmoop dooz your brought to you
- 00:05
by sharing are you gonna finish that piece of cake
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Thank you for following passage We're thinking about heart artistic
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player all right we're skinned we're done what change needs
- 00:21
to be made to sentence twenty four and hear the
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- 00:23
potential answers Ok well first we need to run sentence
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twenty four through diagnostic so let's read it What makes
- 00:32
a good piece of art is its use of artistic
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elements and principles and the pieces ability to move the
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viewer well i've written by the magazine editor Oh yeah
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not looking so good Are we number twenty four We
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definitely need to make a change so right off the
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bat we could get rid of option d So now
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let's break down the remaining option We've got option a
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does the sentence use the wrong it's No in this
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sense it's is possessive because it claims ownership of the
- 01:00
now unused a little bossy but fine it's confusing though
- 01:04
because we usually add an apostrophe s to make things
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possessive But the possessive version of hits doesn't have an
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apostrophe because the apostrophe s version of its is the
- 01:15
contraction for it is listen how weird that would sound
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in this sentence What makes a good piece of art
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Is it his use of artistic elements being weird Option
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b isn't going to cut it either way We need
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the possessive nothing plural because we're talking about one piece
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that's laying claim to the noun ability Notice that in
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this case we can go back to the standard rule
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for making things possessive by simply adding an apostrophe as
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to the word peace right piece a cake The correct
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answer is c This sense is a statement not a
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question so we need a period instead of a question
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mark Hear what just means the thing that makes a
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good piece of art We don't know what makes good
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art but we do know what makes a good art
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museum conveniently placed couches seriously We're the only ones who
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feet bird As soon as we walked through the door 00:02:07.73 --> [endTime] come on people get a couch in there
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