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All right Ask firing shmoop er's next up Survival instincts

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on tv six of twelve here we go It's on

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Mohr watched shows right there Can a paragraph two skin

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down there The originals rob jenna survivors and around location

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find food and challenge winners But the last minutes of

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one million dollars payout the show focuses less on actual

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survival skills and more on the alliances and conflict between

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contestants Survivor has consistently been one of the more watched

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shows on tv since its first us season in two

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thousand Alright well it's kind of odd Odd more watched

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like there's only two what two shows on Well when

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we compare one thing and a whole group of things

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we need you superlatives like most best greatest and so

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on Like if you had two siblings while one could

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be more better than the other something like that But

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you wouldn't say the brother is the most good sibling

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right If we're comparing only two things Yeah we use

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words like more and better and greater since the author

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is comparing survivor toe all the other shows on tv

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not just say a better one Like american ninja warrior

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just awesome Well the correct comparison word is most like

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right there more often is incorrect because it implies the

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author's comparing only two tv shows and mostly is an

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adverb meaning primarily or largely which is not at all

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what we need here Get ready as well so it

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should read Survivor has consistently been one of the most

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watched shows on tv since his first u S season 00:01:41.447 --> [endTime] in two thousand That's it We're survived

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