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ELA Drills, Advanced: Punctuation 4. Which of the words is spelled correctly?

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

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jour brought to you by shepherds Some of them hang

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out with sheep for the sheer joy of it Which

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of the words is spelled correctly and hear the potential

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answers our means The others are all spelled incorrectly So

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we've got four words here and all of them happened

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have silent letters in their correct spellings Which of them

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left in a letter that shouldn't be there We'll start

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with option a campaign Egon don't ask us why but

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they're supposed to be a g in that word right

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before the end Yeah we know english could be a

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real pain and that's pain without aggie next up as

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the month Well hear The word isn't even pronounce correctly

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when we try to say it is written so we

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can pretty much well nix this one right away here

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it looks like ashman which was probably when you have

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trouble breathing around extinguished campfires after the seymour's air all

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smoldering in there What about sea shepherd Now we're missing

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a second age in this one It's actually spelled s

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h e p h e r d as in hurting

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Shape like shep herd sheep herd Wow that actually makes

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sense One word that left its silent letter where it

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belongs is thie heirloom We don't pronounce that age but

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we sure do included when the word is written out

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If you ever see it spelled this way then it's

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possible Some maniacal sheppard got too close to it with 00:01:22.085 --> [endTime] the electric razor

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