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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by bells [Man rings a large bell]

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okay here's our question fill in the blank with the correct future tense of

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the word ring the bell blank tomorrow at five o'clock sharp and here are our

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potential answers.... all right well none of these ringing any

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bells for you people there well try saying the sentence aloud with each of [Boy reads sentence aloud]

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the options filled into the blank which one rings true, all right we'll lay off the

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ring jokes there.... Alrighty let's check out the answer

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starting with D but guess what we don't even have to fill in the blank here

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that's because rung is in the past tense and as any good a historian time

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traveler or Time Lord knows the past is the exact opposite of the future but

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just for fun the bell rung tomorrow at 5 o'clock sharp true to our expectations [Man rings bell in a park]

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the sentence sounds like garbage so D is out what about C nope had rung is also

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past tense we doubt very much the past not being the future has changed in the

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last 30 seconds though it looks like we're in for more trouble the bell had

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rung tomorrow at 5 o'clock and another garbage sentence another option down how

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that B well rings isn't past tense but it isn't future either its the present I

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hope you don't need to ask any historians or the doctor whether the [Man writes present = future on board]

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present is the future it was pretty obvious and anyway they're busy doing

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history stuff or saving the world or wearing shades or something but let's

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give it a whirl just in case the bell rings tomorrow at 5 o'clock sharp

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well we end up with a sentence that sounds better than last two but still

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not quite right and another one bites the dust what about A the bell will ring

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tomorrow at 5 o'clock sharp, well, ding ding ding sounds like our answer why

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because will ring is the future tense we've been looking for so we have our [Men walk into police box]

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answer A and look at that we did it without the doctor's help.. We're

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objecting to a new companion, we can take a ride in the TARDIS any day of the

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week

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