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Okay see reading people Another sentence for you to analyze

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here The train conductor expected to have spotted the deer

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on the track before dusk last night huh What's wrong

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with that All those pesky dear always coming from the

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wrong side of the tracks And it sounds like there's

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A story behind this late day creature encounter But the

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only story we care about begins with once upon a

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time there was a sense that needed a past tense

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verb How do we know we're looking for expected Well

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the clue is before dusk last night the conductor's spotted

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the deer a day ago named bambi not a mother

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Yeah we're crying so we need to past tense verb

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here That's it And i remember the movie bambi versus

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godzilla That's Kind of what It's like a train track

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Well save the loser ball here The verb needs to

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remain in the past tense to be grammatically correct So

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that eliminates the present tense Expect so Get rid of

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b and the president progressive is expecting like it's pregnant

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d so get ready Yeah Meanwhile may expect see expresses

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possibility and situation with the deer went down last night

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So that's it The answer's A expected and wear shmoop 00:01:13.78 --> [endTime] thief

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