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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by mother's day the day were a pension for yo

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mama jokes is bound to get you killed wade in

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there All right how would you correct the following sentence

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if it needs correcting at all For mother's day we

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brought our mother to see a movie eat dinner and

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she got her nails done Who Something's rotten here in

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denmark and hear the potential answers mother thing Yeah well

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this one is going to need some work so we'll

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go ahead and yeah just eliminate answer the right there

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by first of all the sentence randomly throws in the

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pronoun she we know that all the items in this

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list refer to the speakers mother so there's no good

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reason A muddle things with the useless pronoun unless we

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think it's fun to confuse readers All right Also this

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list starts out with the infinitive to see infinitive zahra

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crazy part of speech that are made up of the

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word to and a verb even though they contain a

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verb infinitives function is now nhs adjectives or adverbs So

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yeah it's kind of an identity crisis type of situation

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The important thing to know for this question is that

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the verb of any infinitives has to be in the

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present tense since we start the list with to see

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we know that all the other verbs need to follow

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the same format Laws of parallel construction demand that all

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of our sentences that have this kind of consistency though

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as soon as we see the past tense verb god

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we know the senses and needed some help never got

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option A has the same problems as the original sense

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way have the past tense for god and we have

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even more she's sprinkled into the sentence for no good

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reason Choice see correctly gives us the present tense verb

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get but it still sticks us with an extra sheet

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No no thanks joyce See we've got all the she's

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we need Option b is the best answer there's Nothing

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but present tense verbs and there aren't any she's to

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be seen Now if only we could figure out what

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to get our moms for mother's day very hard never 00:02:00.169 --> [endTime] good enough they are

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