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Okay C t s spire shmoop er's We're on five

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of twelve Let zoom in were in paragraph two here

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He was being denied admission Alright so place this in

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contacts and we'll go skin down to it Meredith intended

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jackson state university an all black school for two years

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During that time he applied repeatedly for admission at ole

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miss university an all white school each time he was

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being denied admission because of the university's policy of racial

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segregation despite his strong academic qualifications Well well that's anything

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Turn here Let's think about this This question is all

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about verbs Sure sounds exciting doesn't it Well has written

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the sense Makes it sound as though being denied admission

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was an ongoing single action Instead of a siri's of

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separate incidents we might unwittingly turn the phrase passive by

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switching the subject from hee too admission like they do

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in b which would be totally wrong And we're all

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about avoiding passive phrasing whenever possible So get rid of

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that Using a bunch of ambiguous pronouns meanwhile makes us

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a little cross eyed like the they deny in what

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does that mean Well luckily one answer choice gives us

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the appropriate past tense verb and avoids a change in

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grammatical subject He was denied admission So c is the

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right one and it should read each time he was

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denied admission because of the university's policy Yeah gotta yeah

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So it happened that one time or serially one time

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after another time after another time and well thank goodness 00:01:43.415 --> [endTime] he finally got it

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