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ACT Aspire English: Subject-Verb Agreement 12 Views
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shows that places participants
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All right eh Spiros number two a twelve survival instincts
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on tv shows that places participants That's our focus here
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Let's came down to it recently Been around popular tv
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chun and training gonna question was about mingle Tune in
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from the original survival show survivor to the many recent
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spinoffs audiences have demonstrated endless interest in shows that places
- 00:30
participants in remote areas with very little supplies terrible writing
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terrible Shmoop Well Some sentences bury their subjects not in
- 00:44
a six feet under kind of way but among the
- 00:46
other potential subjects which makes them difficult to find Subject
- 00:50
of the phrase in question here is shows it's the
- 00:53
shows that are doing the placing of the participants in
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remote locations you might seem is though the subject should
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be interest in shows But the audiences interest is not
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the subject doing the placing the participants right now that
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we've taken care of that issue it's time to address
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the real issue subject verb agreement What verbs need to
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agree with their subjects in gender number and tensed We're
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not referring toe one show like in be there but
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to multiple shows and the verb to place needs to
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be in the present tense to match the rest of
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the day Acid with a plural subject and verb combo
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shows that place like see their satisfies these requirements So
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that's our best choice in this sample of really terrible
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writing So how would that read Well like this From
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the original survival show survivor to the many recent spinoffs
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audiences have demonstrated endless interest in shows that place participants
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in remote areas with very little supplies You all right
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