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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by job

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offers if you ever get a job offer to work on a farm harvesting vegetables [man holding lots of vegetables]

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just make sure they offer you a decent celery.. sorry! Which sentence shows Ian

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got a job offer and here are the potential answers...Well it's like

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we've just gotta just problem, yep, it's a tricky one a lot of people have issues [person swats a fly with 'just' for a body]

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with sticking this word in the wrong place like into an electrical outlet

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yeah never a good idea shocking so which of our answer choices gets it right

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option A wants to put the just after the word offer so it reads Ian got a job

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offer just at the outdoor store. Well since just comes before the outdoor store this

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phrasing seems to imply that he interviewed at several places but only [Ian interviewing at several company's]

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the outdoor store hired him that's not really what the sentence is going for, so

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we can plow right over it. What about B just Ian got a job offer at the outdoor

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store well it's an awkwardly worded sentence no matter what it might sort of [People lining up for an interview]

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kind of make sense if several people interviewed at the outdoor store and

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only Ian was hired but this isn't about Ian bragging that he beat out a dozen [Ian celebrating that he beat others to the job]

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other applicant he's saving that for the phone call to his parents. C; Ian just

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got a job offer at the outdoor store, ah there we go yeah just as an adverb in

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this sense and modifies the verb the verb in the sentence has got so we want

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to say that Ian just got the job offer make it clear that he was recently [Ian given a rake by an outdoor store worker]

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offered the position and didn't get the offer you know three months ago or

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something which would be bad since he hasn't been shown up to work so C it [Outdoor store worker unhappy at Ian not being at work]

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is poor Ian, been a long tough first day on the job he's pretty beat [Ian holding beats on a sofa]

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