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Sorry Then here's your shmoop du jour Brought to you

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by practical jokes We thought about rigging this one with

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a spring loaded snake That but well then we remembered

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we're not twelve All right grownup two brothers Yeah Read

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this Skimming skimming skimming and let's Just get into it

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All right What change needs to be made in sentence

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Eleven aren't here Potential answers And yeah sentence eleven has

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a glaring mistake Here we go He had no interest

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in our pranks and spent most of his time shaking

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his head at our antics Ok like we just gave

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you a big hint there with pranks If we went

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with option b things would only get worse As is

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the verbs and the sentence are all in the simple

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past tense which is how they ought to be changing

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Spent two was spending switches as randomly toe past continuous

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tense there's No reason for that Unless we think it's

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fun to write grammatically incorrect Since in which case we

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might be a little nuts Well when maybe but separate

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issue All right Choice Seizing correct Because one it makes

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more sense to say that he had no interest than

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no enthusiasm And two this sentence has a much bigger

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problem than word choice Do you see it You see

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it No worries Almost there D misses the issue and

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makes the sentence grammatically incorrect Putting a comma after pranks

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means that we'd also be placing it before the conjunction

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And but usually we only put commons before conjunctions When

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the conjunctions connect to independent clauses he had no interest

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in our pranks has its own subjects He enver had

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making it independent however spent most of his time shaking

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his head in our antics on ly has the verb

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spent well without a subject it's not independent so there's

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no need for the comma before the conjunction and well

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there might be need for this prank brother to loosen

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up a bit All right ansari gets it right because

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it's the only choice that realizes there's no need for

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an apostrophe in frank's without the apostrophe The word is

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plural which is what the sentence is begging for with

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the apostrophe Frank's becomes possessive with nothing to possess But

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maybe the conjunction and this of course makes zero sense

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and probably makes the conjunction and well feel stifled way

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Don't want to see And when it doesn't get its 00:02:13.87 --> [endTime] space

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