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Texas EOC English I: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts Drill 3, Problem 2
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Thank you We sneak in Sorry And here's your shmoop
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du jour brought to you by the present progressive because
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the absent progressive will never showed up All right we'll
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check out the following passage We are frankly i'm checking
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now that we're going in just to prove what a
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big loss here on a he's doing it right All
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right we're done what's The best way to rewrite sentence
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seven and hear the potential Answer me probably All right
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Well the original sense is awkward and uses the incorrect
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tense of to come Picasso is probably the first one
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to be coming to mind for most people Police is
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saying that people are thinking of picasso in the present
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tense He's not predicting that they'll be thinking of him
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in the future Her psychic powers were only just aren't
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that great the choice d makes the same mistakes the
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original sentence and it's an easy elimination and we're onto
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the next one All right option a is no good
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either At least needs a verb That's in the simple
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present tense but is coming is in the present progressive
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which is a tense we use to describe something that's
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happening now and will continue into the future again Elise
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is totally in the now with this sentence got it
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reminds us of a meditation seminar went to last week
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Alright well lookie here Choice See Does the exact same
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thing is option a so buddy take a hike way
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Don't need any present progressives Well at long last we've
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come to answer beat this one gets it right by
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using the verb is which is in the simple present
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tense For now the future is a distant concern For
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release until time traveling cyborg returned The collective leases debt
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and she'll have bigger problems than a few grammatical mistake
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