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great whites body


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All right A c t s Firoz Here we go

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We got the five of twelve great white's body right

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there that's or focusing on And it's in paragraph too

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So let's just skim here like the movie jaws Yeah

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yeah the one of the reasons i'm in a very

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much a measuring up to twenty five feet long Great

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whites have large triangular teeth that can be seen protruding

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from their mouths adding to their frightening appearance to all

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the orthodontist in the ocean They're dark grey with a

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white underbelly The great white's body is shaped like a

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torpedo and it has large dorsal lateral in jail All

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right the question here is the great wide shaped like

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a torpedo Or was the torpedo shaped like a great

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white Yeah Which came first Yeah When in a contest

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darwin always wins Well the clue that we're dealing with

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a single great white as opposed to something horrifying like

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a zillion great whites particularly you know if they're hungry

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and cranky is the use of the singular pronoun it

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later in the sentence Since it's one great white all

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we need todo is slap on an apostrophe and an

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s to make the correct possessive form of great white

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body So the answer there is the great white's body

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is shaved blah blah blah Yeah sorry we can't get

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out of this one by avoiding the possessive altogether And

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so get rid of a we'll need to put that

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impossibly somewhere if we put it at the end of

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white It sounds like we're talking about the bodies of

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many great whites which you don't want to go there

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We can't make body possessive because the body belongs to

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the great white not the other way around Right Well

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uh this is starting to sound a little gruesome so

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let's just move right along Moving on moving on Great 00:01:44.953 --> [endTime] white's body in no sharknado no sharknado

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