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Texas EOC English 2: 4.2 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts
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Here’s your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the fight to stop animal cruelty.

00:09

Because the mean-girl squirrels who make fun of our outfits must be stopped. [Squirrels laugh]

00:14

Check out the following passage...

00:24

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 6? [Asks question]

00:27

And here are the potential answers...

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This sentence says that humans have forgotten that they’re animals. [Eating]

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Which is probably true for most people, except those who make their livings waxing backs.

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The first option to go is (A).

00:45

Changing we to us would be incorrect since us is an object pronoun.

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We need the subject pronoun we here since it’s the subject of the sentence’s final clause.

00:56

Huh...Are we the only ones who think Final Clause sounds like the title of a movie in

01:00

which Santa is trapped on a distant planet and has to fight for his life in an alien

01:04

gladiatorial arena? [Santa fights aliens]

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Yeah, we probably are the only ones.

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On to option (B), which doesn’t do anything worth doing.

01:11

Too and as well mean basically the same thing, so swapping one for the other wouldn’t make

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anything better.

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If our iPhone was fried because we dropped it in the toilet, [iPhone in toilet]

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it wouldn’t help to replace its unbroken screen with another unbroken screen, now would it?

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The answer is no.

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Option (C) isn’t going to work either.

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Nixing the helping verb "have" leaves us with the simple past tense verb forgot.

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But that doesn’t work with the meaning of the sentence. [Red X appears]

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Choice (D) totally gets it.

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This question deals with past participles.

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Past parti...wah? [Confused look]

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Here's the deal: when we use the verb to have before another verb, we need the participle

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of the second verb, which is sometimes different than the past tense.

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Examples...

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I have been to the mall.

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He has left for the mall.

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She had taken us to the mall, but now nobody can find it, and the GPS won’t work, and

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we’re totally lost, and... [Lost children]

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OK, we got carried away with that last one.

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Anyway, (D) shows the correct change in sentence 6 because it replaces the past tense forgot

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with the participle forgotten. [Butterfly net catches forgot]

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Don’t feel bad for forgot.

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We’ll set it free on the happy farm where all unwanted verbs go.

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