ShmoopTube

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Sorry And here's your shmoop twos you're brought to you

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by speeding It might have been illegal but you got

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here fast No all right which answer best fills in

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the blanks blank going to break the speed limit if

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they go any faster i'm filling in that blank and

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hear the potential answer All right there There there he's

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Okay well the only thing that can fill the hole

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in this sentence is life is the correct thrown out

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If only it were that easy for everybody Well we'll

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begin by eliminating option d Why would he break the

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speed limit if they go faster Are he and they

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in some kind of fast and the furious type situation

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Well that's open on the final three choices bring us

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to the age old question of there there and there

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since the last half of the sentence uses they The

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subject of the sentence also needs to be some form

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of day but which form should it be the question

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they've been asking for centuries Thinking about this let's us

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nick's choice eh This there isn't a form of they

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at all may sound exactly like the other two but

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this there is usually used to refer to a place

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not people are things we can use It is a

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pronoun by saying something like there are motion should be

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escaped zero or is an advert by saying stop there

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monkeys or is an interjection by saying they're they're monkeys

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We're sorry we yelled at you All right well none

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of these uses help us with this particular center So

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let's move on choice bees version of there is a

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form of they but it's not the form we need

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We used t h e i r when we want

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to make they possessive For example we could say their

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food taste like old socks In this case we're showing

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that they are the ones who own food a fact

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in which the health inspector might be interested If we

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put the possessive there in the sense in question it

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wouldn't work It would mean that they somehow home going

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which doesn't make any sense at all Option c is

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the only one that works This version of there is

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a contraction for they are with the apostrophe standing in

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for the uh in our you know because saying they 00:02:13.9 --> [endTime] are way too exhausting What

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