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the great white is seals
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- 00:03
All right A c t ask firas Here we go
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seven of twelve The great white is seals terrible again
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Alright paragraph three let's zoom down here The great white
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is an apex predator at the top of the ocean
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food chain A primary sources of prey for the great
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- 00:22
white is seals sea lions and walruses although they will
- 00:26
also eat fish and turtles and human you know All
- 00:29
right well some clearly rotten in denmark ocean here We
- 00:36
all know about the importance of agreement because we're kind
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of hippies like that right But it's important to be
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absolutely sure that we're working with the correct subject of
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the sentence and hear the subject is sources of prey
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right there in black and white for you That's plural
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So the corresponding verbs should be r as in see
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the great white arse eels Hopefully we didn't get really
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confused and create a plural subject The great whites to
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go with the singular verb is or do our own
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thing and change the sentence of the past tense Like
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indeed that wouldn't be a very cooperative or harmonious of
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us like the hippies that we are So how does
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this read What reads like this The primary sources of
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prey for the great white are seals sea lions and
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walruses You remember chumley from tennessee tuxedo All right well
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that's it We're done you see and we'll see you 00:01:27.918 --> [endTime] later in the sea
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