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SAT Writing and Language Drill 6.11 Conventions of Usage 1 Views


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Ok Shmoopers - last one in this series on The Well-Rounded Curriculum! All you have to do is analyze some singular and plural words.


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Okay s reading shmoop furs Last one in this section

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for this awesome piece of writing about the value of

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a liberal arts education you were smirking okay sense Play

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in a band act in a play dance in a

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company or sing in the chorus Where does that go

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and end here There we go Back to the most

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news in school Terrible undocking professionals get each of the

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students who play in a band act in a play

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dance in a company or singing the chorus can benefit

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from the experience in amazing ways and become a more

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well rounded member of american society All right well how

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does that read to you Kind of Sounds like a

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rapper Well each here is singular so it calls for

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singular verbs plays acts dances So yeah let's See here

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right You just missed the tents The concept was good

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Even though students is plural The sentences about each of

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the students meaning it singular rises something that well would

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have been plural We have tohave verbs that agree with

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the singular noun they're fun fact each is always singular

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even if it's each of a plural thing three plural

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verbs and one singular verb i still incorrect and be

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there because we've got to do our loser dance Be

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shame on you The word is followed by an invert

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puts the sentence in the progressive and which makes it

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sound like the sentences about a set of specific students

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who are currently doing these things Yeah not happening This

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sentence is theoretical so the specificity just confuses things Get

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rid of that one and that's it The answer is

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c plays in a band accented play dances in a

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company or sings in the chorus while it's shmoop ups 00:01:43.378 --> [endTime] in the background Okay we're done

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