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

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by lost keys Well it looks like we're not going

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anywhere Check the following passage growing up with two brothers

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jimmy tinkle like frank But those clues william henry through

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there All right what change needs to be made in

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sentence and here a potential inches right way Go b

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well there are three things we can count on in

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this life Death taxes and that sentence eight has to

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change right there One time he hit my mother's keys

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and put notes with clues all around the house so

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she would find them Well the decrees the change so

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it must be true Answer D isn't the way to

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go though in the original sentence the pronoun them refers

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to keys and it's totally right in doing so since

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both pronoun and now our plural the pro known it

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is singular So it's not allowed to refer to keys

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on pain of death Well death not today but on

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pain of being wrong and stuff All right like the

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option b is just trying to make sense worse some

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kind of conspiracy don't think we don't know what's going

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on here people problem with option b is that it

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tries to change the verb hid which is in the

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simple past tense into had hidden which is in the

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past perfect all the other verbs in the sentence or

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in the simple past though so this is a terrible

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idea Joyce is getting warmer but that doesn't make it

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right Putting an apostrophe after mother's makes it plural possessive

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meaning that John had more than 1 mother who was

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looking for the keys Option c looks a lot better

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Putting an apostrophe after the r makes mother singular and

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possessive of the keys This is definitely the right answer

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but jimmy needs to stop hiding the keys So much 00:01:57.668 --> [endTime] for the day of the party

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