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a streaker at night i'll be sure to use your

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flash All right Taking the passage yet again We've seen

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this a million times Mmm So we're just going to

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skim it Skim skim it and yeah good luck with

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all that let's Get to the question How should the

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underlined portion be changed in the passage if at all

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Each of their newly purchased systems provide visibility and hear

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the potential answers are no change changes Well get out

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your red pens everyone It's time to play teacher Suppose

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this passage was an essay submitted to you by a

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student and now you get to mark up their paper

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and bring down their grade doesn't just make you feel

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good all over it's The little things in life so

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far today isn't correct and some changes do in fact

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need to be made well what is wrong with this

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sentence It sounds sort of ok but let's break down

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with its actually saying they should make sure each of

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their newly purchased systems provide visibility of the driver as

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well As of each occupant seeding location so it's not

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all of the individual systems we're talking about here it's

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each system all by its lonesome individual In other words

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our subject is singular but we're lacking subject verb agreement

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painted when they fight So yeah while we might say

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that systems provide because systems is plural way would say

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that each system provides uh now there's some agreement an

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option b they're newly purchased systems provides visibility We've got

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a plural subject in a singular verb and then see

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we can't say each of their system more specifically trying

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get laughed out of the room But d hits the

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sweet spot Each of their newly purchased systems provides visibility

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We've got a singular subject each and a singular verb

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provides Hence the subject verb agreement we were looking for

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in the first place Oh goody no more infighting now 00:02:06.25 --> [endTime] on out fighting on what

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