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All right Reading trumpers and other sentence for your digestion

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Here let's get to it Charlie given and tate lawrence

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our candidates for the position of general manager because of

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his excellence in business strategy Okay we've got some problems

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here So you got two guys What we're saying His

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excellent Do you see a little problem there Yeah All

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right Well charlie and tater two different people Therefore we

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need a plural pronoun like they're as with every sentence

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picked The option that conveys the information succinctly without awkward

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construction or extra words Right Letting the sentence flow uninterrupted

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Best option here So yeah it's c and it's Not

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clear from the pronoun reference His which of these guys

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is doing excellent work either So you give it a

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anyway they're both candidates for the position So it must

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be both of them that's involved here We need to

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change the pronoun back to the noun it's supposed to

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replace not leave it and had a semicolon is in

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b that's wishful thinking not excellence in sentence strategy And

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we definitely need to switch to their But remember to

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ditch that semi colon indie Plus you know being mohr

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Excellent has a way of life not a proper grammatical

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phrase to use in a sentence about getting a new 00:01:11.732 --> [endTime] job So that's it it's sea and were shmoop

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