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Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.

Charlie Gibbons and Tate Lawrence are candidates for the position of general manager because of his excellence in business strategy.


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All right Reading trumpers and other sentence for your digestion

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Here let's get to it Charlie given and tate lawrence

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our candidates for the position of general manager because of

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his excellence in business strategy Okay we've got some problems

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here So you got two guys What we're saying His

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excellent Do you see a little problem there Yeah All

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right Well charlie and tater two different people Therefore we

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need a plural pronoun like they're as with every sentence

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picked The option that conveys the information succinctly without awkward

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construction or extra words Right Letting the sentence flow uninterrupted

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Best option here So yeah it's c and it's Not

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clear from the pronoun reference His which of these guys

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is doing excellent work either So you give it a

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anyway they're both candidates for the position So it must

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be both of them that's involved here We need to

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change the pronoun back to the noun it's supposed to

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replace not leave it and had a semicolon is in

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b that's wishful thinking not excellence in sentence strategy And

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we definitely need to switch to their But remember to

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ditch that semi colon indie Plus you know being mohr

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Excellent has a way of life not a proper grammatical

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phrase to use in a sentence about getting a new 00:01:11.732 --> [endTime] job So that's it it's sea and were shmoop

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