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Can you figure out what the word "infused" is modifying?
Transcript
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Full Transcript
- 00:14
Sharknado was awesome.
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It's actually how they... [ trails off ]
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[ mumbles ]
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All right, we're done.
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The word "infused" in line 42 - right here -
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modifies... what?
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And get that shark out of here.
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All right, and here are the potential answers.
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[ mumbles ]
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All right, well, we'll start by taking another look at the sentence
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in which this word appears.
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Yep, that's a convoluted sentence.
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Let's zoom in on the part of the sentence that's most important.
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So the "they" here is the teachers, right?
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And the "other lives" are those of the students.
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So "infused" has to be modifying the students' lives.
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These guys, right here.
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The teachers can't infuse their own lives
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into their own lives, unless they're like in a Keanu Reeves remake.
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Something like that.
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It's like, you know, The Matrix 7: The Revenge or something.
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All right, options A, D, and E
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all refer to the teachers and their lives, not the students.
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So we can eliminate them for sure.
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These options would never win the Teacher of the Year award.
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Choice C is way off the mark.
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The effect is the result of this infusing, not the
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thing that's having something infused into it.
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We'd like an infusion of something right now.
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Sorting out this sentence is making our brain juice run low.
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Yeah. Get that shark out of here.
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All right, answer B is the only one that gets that the speaker
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is talking about the kids.
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Really the trick here is recognizing that the prepositional phrase
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"into which they infused their own"
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is modifying "those other lives."
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Right here.
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Once we nail that down, it's easy to see that we're describing the pupils.
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Uh, these pupils.
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Well, as easy at it gets with this sentence, anyway.
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[ dun dun dun ]
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