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Okay sadie shmoop er's We're moving on five of eleven

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here and we're just going to scoot a few words

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down in the same paragraph We were just looking at

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which only he occupied How great our rug a little

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freezing everything You always see it right here in the

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paragraph right there in big carriage which only he occupied

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So just george sitting all by his lonesome in the

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carriage kind of mo pee a little bit So when

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only is an adverb A good rule of thumb is

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to put it closest to the phrase it's modifying on

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this case it's modifying he right there since he was

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the one alone in the carriage only he clarifies that

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there were no occupants other than washington So this is

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probably gonna be a no change o thing right Putting

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on lee between he and occupied only modifies occupied implying

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that the only thing washington did carriage was occupy It

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was kind of strange like you wouldn't say that normal

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english And yes that may be true that he was

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the only one occupying And hopefully he didn't vandalize it

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out of frustration But that's not the implied meaning of

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the sentence You kind of got to go with what

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the test makers air asking you to find if climbing

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their mind and read it And then well you kind

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of get a little sick after doing that placing on

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lee after occupied right there is maybe feasible But it's

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also confusing since it could mean either that he was

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the only occupant or that the only thing he did

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was occupy and it's Not like a occupy wall street

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The hypocrisy thing that we're trying to do here because

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this phrase comes after a comma and because the sentences

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meaning wouldn't change if it were deleted What we know

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which on ly he occupied is a non restrictive claus

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and that is only used with restrictive clauses So yeah

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that's it Don't change it in which only he occupied 00:01:44.931 --> [endTime] All right we're done no

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