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ACT Aspire English: Plural v. Plural Possessive 5 Views


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challenge winners' receive prizes


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00:02

All right Spirals were for twelve into this thing on

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survival on tv All right next up challenge winners receive

00:10

prizes I'm clearly something's wrong here Alright Skipping down to

00:14

the original driver saw problem survivors actually cos many rule

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may twist central location and we've never been move it

00:22

free and physical challenges The challenge winner is a apostrophe

00:27

in the wrong place There received prizes like food or

00:30

immunity from being voted off the show or catching ebola

00:35

All right well let's think about it The fact that

00:41

people are receiving things might suggest that a possessive is

00:44

somehow involved but don't fall for it The challenge winners

00:48

might be given prizes but sense doesn't say that the

00:51

prizes belong to them Also winners can't own receive crime

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It's a verb not a thing which is another clue

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that the possessive doesn't belong here To answer this question

01:02

we can eliminate all the answer choices that include a

01:05

possessive like b and c There the apostrophe three choices

01:10

The winner like d right there challenge winners receive prizes

01:14

That's it We're done It's the

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