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ACT Aspire English: Subject-Pronoun Agreement 5 Views
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from their parents
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Okay aspiring people from their parents That's our focus here
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right there Three little nasty words in psychology terminology genetics
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refers to the combination of genes that one inherits from
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their parents One and there shmoop anyone else see something
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wrong here Well since each of the answer choices has
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a different pronoun were basically looking at the equivalent of
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a giant neon sign that says subject pronoun agreement They
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have to skin the answers first here and that'll help
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you a lot figure out the answer You think through
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it So hey if the sign fitz will take it
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the subject of the sense is one I like you
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too song from the genes that one inherits So that
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rules out there as an a an hour as in
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sea both of which are prone ins that referred a
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plural subject But here we have a singular one Talking
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about a person is both do a thing and we
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can eliminate its as well So that leaves us just
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with his or her as indy which is what we
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use when the subject is one or a person got
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it So it should read In psychology terminology Genetics refers
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to the combination of genes that one inherits from his 00:01:21.173 --> [endTime] or her parents A period that's it we're inherited
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