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location, they must
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- 00:01
Okay Next up for aspiring people Three twelve location They
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must have its beginning Paragraph two years Let's skim to
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its original survival Reality show appropriately titled survivor is actually
- 00:17
a fierce competition with many rules and many twists sent
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to a remote location They must find their own food
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- 00:27
water and shelter while competing in frequent physical challenge is
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interesting We got a lot of days and ambiguous pronouns
- 00:35
floating around here So let's think about this of the
- 00:39
underlying portion features a mysterious they which doesn't seem to
- 00:43
refer to anyone in particular The sentence before doesn't refer
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to anyone specific either Maybe it's the same They who
- 00:50
were always saying that it's going to rain right and
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wrong In this case though we can infer that they
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refers to show participants are contestants So to clarify our
- 00:59
subject we should replace the ambiguous pronoun with participants like
- 01:04
in sea like what they do there Although ambiguous pronouns
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are frustrating don't throw in the towel and take away
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the subject altogether Like doing b don't just gas and
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make the subject singular either like he or she still
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doesn't indicate a specific subject like indeed So it should
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read sent to a remote location Participants must find their
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own food and water a ll that crap Okay that's 00:01:27.463 --> [endTime] it We're done
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