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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by computer processor chips warning they

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don't go well with onion dip Kind of found out

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the hard way All right didn't has electronic waste were

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skimming No All right we're done Improve the unclear reference

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in sentence Sixteen by changing them to what And here

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the potential answers Health and get thank you So the

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problem here is that we're not totally sure what the

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pronoun them is referring to but a little common sense

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helps to eliminate most of these answers pretty quickly Take

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option c for example how would recycling computers help us

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to get rid of air food and water supplies Well

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more importantly why would we want to do so Air

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food water These things are kind of like you know

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essential to life and choice a doesn't make any sense

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either If we plug this into the sentence it would

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read computer recycling disposes of health conditions in a safe

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manner how would that work exactly Answer d is a

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total slacker All it does is replaced the plural noun

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them with the singular pronoun it the issue here isn't

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the pronoun being plural or singular it's that we're not

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sure what the pronoun is referencing Well the correct answer

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is b dioxins if we read back two sentences fourteen

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fifteen it's clear that the them in sixteen is referencing

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dioxins However with so many other announce flying around it's

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safer to make it absolutely clear what if someone got

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confused and got rid of all their air food and 00:01:42.136 --> [endTime] water I'm so hungry

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