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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by guess what trees!

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yeah you were really going out on a limb for that one all right which word is [A tree with eyes and a bird lands on it]

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spelled wrong and here's the potential answers [mumbling]

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All right so we've got four words all plural and we

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need to pinpoint the one that's spelled incorrectly well unfortunately our word [A tree with eyes staring at another tree with A, B, C, D on it]

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sniffing dog is barking up the wrong tree at the moment so we'll have to do [Dog barks at a tree and runs away]

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this one by one ourselves we know that sometimes we have to change a letter or

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two when making a word plural is that what's happening in this situation

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well let's see. Option A shows the plural of table as tables looks perfectly fine no [A table with the word 'tables' on top of it]

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reason to go changing up the any of those letters so we'll leave this one alone. Enough

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of the tree jokes.. So there's B houses same thing one house, two house red hou-... [two identical houses side by side]

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all right C. Trees.. yeah if we turned the plural for tree into tree'vs people [group of people with coffee laughing]

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would look at us like we were nuts and they might not be wrong all right the

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right answer is wifes the only time this wouldn't sound funny is if the word

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was possessive or a contraction like I borrowed my wife's card this morning [a white car drives along the street]

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before I ran over the dog or I drove my wife's car over the dog we love our dog

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just kidding... okay sit. All right but when making this

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word plural we change the F to a V and it becomes 'wives' not wifes so D is the [Wifes changed to the word Wives]

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correct answer.. Doesn't look too bad [A white car with a busted chassis]

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