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Thank you We sneak in or brought to you by

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modifiers like that illegal nitrous booster You added to your

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vest but to make it go wicked fast When i

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first read the passage blow from a press release about

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farnsworth are worth worth of fire it's far you know

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maybe all right now click the drop down menu and

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choose the option that correctly completes this sense All right

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well the options air here establishing something somewhere Yeah all

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right Well modifying phrases need to fit the subjects they

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modified because it's not good when things don't fit we

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spoke now maybe in the future when our robot overlords

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rule the world companies will establish themselves But until that

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fateful day people are the ones doing the establishing the

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conjugation of establish has to reflect the subject that is

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performing The action Answer See implies that farnsworth entertainment established

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itself that it simply came into being like the year

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old box of baking soda that simply exists in the

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back of every fridge somehow answer d implies the same

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thing but just switches up the verb tense Changing the

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tents doesn't change the fact that the company still didn't

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establish itself and answer a makes the same mistake but

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adds in some zesty grammatical errors like that answer b

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is the only answer that implies that farnsworth entertainment was

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established by someone else It does so by using the

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past participle form of established it's The correct answer So

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remember always be careful with your modifiers on Maybe get

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a seat belt for your best way to play that 00:01:38.822 --> [endTime] one say especially if you're going we could fast

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