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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 5.3 Writing Skills. Which of the following statements provides the best assessment of the argument in Article 2?
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour Brought to you by collective noun sze Hopefully they
- 00:08
retain their value Unlike these baseball cards Yeah sadly All
- 00:12
right check out the following company memo right there Having
- 00:15
time to read this thing Uh this by william shakespeare
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- 00:19
Did he write this Wait No writing something good Sorry
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martin We're just keeping it real baby Yeah Okay here
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we go Now click down the drop down menu and
- 00:28
choose the option that correctly completes the sentence This one
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right here the company blank That branch that donates the
- 00:34
most toys will win three extra paid vacation days for
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two thousand fourteen And martin sounds like a really exciting
- 00:40
manager there huh All right Near the potential answers and
- 00:43
it's all about whatever got announced How and stuff like
- 00:45
that Okay well sometimes singular collective noun is take plural
- 00:50
Form's like lots of is in the company decided amongst
- 00:54
themselves that's the mountain path was too dangerous amongst themselves
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That right Right But otherwise we normally treat these group
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now is as singular units as in the company band
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vacation days like he band He is singular days got
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it so we've got a conjugating the verb to a
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singular subject Well answer C is out and now i've
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got to consider tenses meaning when did the company make
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this announcement Well they're not making this announcement in the
- 01:23
future that wouldn't make a whole lot of sense The
- 01:25
past perfect tense had also doesn't make grammatical sense here
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this's something happening in the present like that test we
- 01:33
overslept for and it's going on right now so we
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need to choose a singular verb in the present which
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makes a has also announced the correct answer here's to
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working collectively to get through this problem but back to
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our other problem these baseball cards and seriously if they 00:01:50.249 --> [endTime] worth anything
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