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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 3.1 Language Conventions and Usage. We're donating our knowledge of syntax to you. Don't worry, we got an extra...
GED Reasoning through Language Arts 2.1 Language Conventions and Usage. Watch this video to make sure you know how misplaced modifiers work. But if...
GED Reasoning through Language Arts 2.4 Language Conventions and Usage. Professor Greenwald always encouraged students to speak up and...what?
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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 3.6 Language Conventions and Usage. Which choice best completes the sentence?
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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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