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PSAT 1.13 Writing Narrative Walkthrough. How would you change the underlined portion, if at all?

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Thank you We sneak and here's your smoke too Sure

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brought to you by city design We visited st louis

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and ran our hands across one of their monuments We

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were really impressed by the ark texture All right check

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out this passage falling from a natural dam in our

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charleston south carolina And um you know riley Okay how

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would you change the underlying portion below if it all

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mayor's institute on city design And here the potential answers

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Boof an institute where sixteen people spent two and a

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half days locked in one room doing nothing but talk

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about design aren't there even bathroom breaks Well let's hope

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the first thing they design is a conference table with

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built in catheters All right so we've got ourselves another

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punctuation question here attack of the killer apostrophes hide your

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children Our four answer choices seemed to have some different

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ideas about whether an apostrophe should be used at all

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and if so where as written we've got mayors with

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an extra s stuck on the end and an apostrophe

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separating the two of them so they don't fight we'd

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assume But while this isn't technically incorrect it's not really

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appropriate here using the s apostrophe s approach is a

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much more informal way of indicating possessiveness and doesn't have

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a place in a professionally written piece like this one

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We swear we're not trying to butter up the authors

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although a signed copy of their latest both might be

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nice guys So if it's not ok as is where

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do we place our apostrophe to avoid a catastrophe Well

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option b it ain't this is the one answer choice

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That doesn't use an apostrophe at all and since it's

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clear that this institute is possessed by the mayor's we

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definitely need one it's a little scary by the way

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about that mayor possessed in maybe it's time to call

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in an exorcist All right see putting the apostrophe before

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the ass would be fine if there were only one

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mayor but we read the passage a novel idea We

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see that the institute was designed to bring mayors from

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different cities together Aii multiple dudes so see isn't going

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to work D will get the job done though by

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putting an apostrophe after the a s We indicate that

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there are multiple mayors and that the institute is their

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thing No exorcists in the phone book when we get

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to resort to this but it's probably time to call

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mayor busters they ain't afraid of no mayors who you 00:02:23.105 --> [endTime] gonna call shmoop

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