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Texas EOC English 1: Editing Drill 1, Problem 1

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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by abstract art which despite its name is remarkably focused

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Yeah like that Check out the following passage Haskell are

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real art So you did I must do keep All

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right tell me the monet We're done All right what

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change needs to be made to sentence one And here

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the pendulum All right well there's nothing tricky here The

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only thing to do is get under the hood of

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the sense and see what's going on Representational art has

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a specific subject and that subject is rendered in a

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style that leaves them identifiable Run All right well she

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might be a fixer upper but we've got it under

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control right off the bat We can eliminate option a

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changing rendered to render rings would make the sense grammatically

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correct would only suggest this choice to release if we

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were secretly trying to sabotage your paper which we're not

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we're going to get rid of option cia's well replacing

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identifiable with identified would distort the meaning of the sense

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funhouse mirrors maybe well fun but that effect isn't so

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cool when we're writing an essay Option b is the

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right answer here as is the sentence contains the plural

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pronoun ram which refers to the singular noun subject That's

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not gonna cut it around here to fix the sense

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at least has to replace them with the singular pronoun

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it and that's it Now she has a singular pronoun

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to match her singular noun And all is well in

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the world Well except in the world of choice D

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which is apparently world that's Cool with grammatical errors Condi

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We expect more of you here with

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