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ACT Aspire English: It's All in the Past (Tense)
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Choose the best alternative to the text below.that such a thing is possible

ACT Aspire English: "Their" vs. "His or Her"
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ACT Aspire English: Eliminating Misplaced Modifiers
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Choose the best alternative to the text below.there is no way that record stores can compete

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there is no way that record stores can compete


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Okay Aspiring t english people were on seven of twelve

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of the tech music into thing here All right question

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It's going to highlight There is no way that record

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stores can compete Let's go to that paragraph three right

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here The days of going to the record store to

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buy an album are gone long Actually we changed too

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long gone struggling to maintain their existence There is no

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way that record stores can compete with digital streaming services

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All right so we have a tense issue A tense

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issue Well see All right let's get to the answer

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here The first clause of this and sets up the

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whom or what struggling to maintain quote there unquote existence

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wrong Then the second clause delivers the goods The record

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stores are the ones struggling to survive They are struggling

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to survive to follow up on the setup We need

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the whom or what I record stores to come right

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after the comma And the only choice that does That

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is the second answer choice Be right there Others give

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it a good shot But we're looking for the one

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that starts with the subject It should be struggling to

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maintain their existence Record stores cannot compete together Got it 00:01:24.265 --> [endTime] And they can't They're all bankrupt Sorry

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