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to record their album
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- 00:01
Okay Shmoop furs Next up three of twelve in the
- 00:04
technology changing the music industry saga Here we go So
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i'm going to go down to the second paragraph now
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not re read for a ninety eight time the first
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paragraph Record companies used to advance some money to an
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- 00:18
artist to record their album and then they would deduce
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the advance from the proceeds of album sales Yeah what
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we'll get to that next problem when we come to
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it we're focused right here to record their album So
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there's an artist recording their album maybe multiple personalities What
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do you think We've got a plurality problem here Well
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the subject doing the verb here to record here Yeah
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that thing is an artist which is singular One of
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them one artist But the word there is plural even
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though it is a pronoun that supposed to refer back
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to the subject here since subject pronoun agreement means making
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sure that a subject and it's pronoun match in number
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and gender This isn't exactly the friendliest combination around here
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His or her is singular and it refers to a
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singular artist so that's the best choice like you know
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you could be singing about lady gaga right Like so
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a record companies advance some money to an artist who
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record lady gaga's album just for right right So the
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answer is c to record his over album and the
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losers here let's just kind of cruise through the plural
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There is incorrect because the subject doing the verb it's
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singular in the throne in which suggested subject isn't a
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person's don't get rid of the there Which brings us
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to another point A person is always a hoot and
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never a witch And if we're talking about an actual
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spell casting broom flying ing incredibly artistic which like stevie
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nicks well that might be a different story But yeah
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we're moving on The answer is c back
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