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- 00:03
All right Ask firing shmoop er's next up Survival instincts
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on tv six of twelve here we go It's on
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Mohr watched shows right there Can a paragraph two skin
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down there The originals rob jenna survivors and around location
- 00:17
find food and challenge winners But the last minutes of
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- 00:20
one million dollars payout the show focuses less on actual
- 00:24
survival skills and more on the alliances and conflict between
- 00:28
contestants Survivor has consistently been one of the more watched
- 00:33
shows on tv since its first us season in two
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thousand Alright well it's kind of odd Odd more watched
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like there's only two what two shows on Well when
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we compare one thing and a whole group of things
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we need you superlatives like most best greatest and so
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on Like if you had two siblings while one could
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be more better than the other something like that But
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you wouldn't say the brother is the most good sibling
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right If we're comparing only two things Yeah we use
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words like more and better and greater since the author
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is comparing survivor toe all the other shows on tv
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not just say a better one Like american ninja warrior
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just awesome Well the correct comparison word is most like
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right there more often is incorrect because it implies the
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author's comparing only two tv shows and mostly is an
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adverb meaning primarily or largely which is not at all
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what we need here Get ready as well so it
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should read Survivor has consistently been one of the most
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watched shows on tv since his first u S season 00:01:41.447 --> [endTime] in two thousand That's it We're survived
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