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Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.

Marie de France wrote poems called lays during the Middle Ages. Her work is enjoyed by her audience because of its magic and mystery.


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Okay see Writing editor people Here we go Next sentence

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married a false wrote Poems called lays during the middle

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ages Poem is away We're not going there Her work

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is enjoyed by her audience because of its magic and

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mystery Awkward terrible sins Well let's see let's think about

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this morita false lived a long long long time ago

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Like during the twelfth century Probably safe to assume then

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that the audiences of the time are no longer alive

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Unless they're bacca's white walkers Well the verbs in the

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first sentence wrote and called are both in the past

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which tells us action occurred in the past So everything

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has to agree here right It's all got to be

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the same tense Her work is singular which makes wass

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the only correct answer right If it's singular it's got

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to be a singular verb It's plural it's got to

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be a player over like he sits or they sit

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got it So the answer is b work was enjoyed

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and no we can't switch verbs in the second sentence

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because the idea expands on The first one is called

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for a verb in the past tense So is an

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r r out were used the plural form of the

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verb of the subject Work in singular not grammatically correct 00:01:16.726 --> [endTime] either So that's it It's big

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