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Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.

Marcello and Mark became good friends after he helped him repair his car.


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Okay see Writing editors Last one in the siri's let's

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Just jump in Marcello and mark became good friends after

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he helped him repair his car like a weird sentence

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That is who's he and lose him All right who's

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The friendly your friend there mark or marcello there has

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to be differentiation Otherwise someone may be getting the credit

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for a kind deed He did not dio as it

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turns out the only way to tell apart that dude

00:28

with the car troubles and the guy with the oily

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thumb is to identify who was doing what We're just

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going to pick one here And the right answer then

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is deep Mark helped marcello repair his car That's it

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that's the whole sentence way can tell between he and

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him in hunan in this first sentence the way it's

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presented in a because while both are masculine pronoun in

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other words it's impossible to decide accurately anyway Which him

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is him Did marcello needs help with his car Was

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it mark Well substituting the name for only one of

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them is still majorly confusing So you get rid of

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being say and the answer is the mark Help Marcello 00:01:05.611 --> [endTime] Shmoop his car That's it

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