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Okay Shmoop furs Next up three of twelve in the

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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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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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