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Okay i say t reading from uppers Just three more

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questions Here were that's the word we're analyzing here It's

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a deep word it's A fun word It's were word

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There we go Never last sooner Forty one point Five

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million dollars paper continental dollars were quickly becoming too valued

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were quickly Well let's see it's an amount is its

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singular or plural that's the million dollar question here Or

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actually the one you called i guess the one dollars

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question well amounts of money are singular The only time

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money is plural is if you're talking about actual bills

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Yeah So the answer there is d it's got to

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be wass write that kind of makes a whole lot

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more sense that two hundred forty one million of paper

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was quickly becoming too valued And you know that kind

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of sounds right All right well loser bowl here the

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this paragraph of this thing right here and the entire

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essay is in the past tense people we've got to

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read it carefully so it doesn't make sense to suddenly

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switch to the president There's no time travel in colonial

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america If we were talking about the individual bills were

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would work but we're not We're talking about the money

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is one big hunk of change Well the type of

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past tense used in the rest of the essay The

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simple past ends should be used here Not the relative

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passed hands of having be there So just get all

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those thoughts out of your brains and just go with

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us on this if it's wass and we was done

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