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ELA Drills: Advanced: Parts of Speech 1. Separate the following words into infinitives and gerunds.
ELA Drills, Advanced: Textual Analysis 2. Which piece of evidence is irrelevant to the claim in the video?
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ELA Drills, Advanced: Spelling 3. Which word is misspelled?
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Here's your Shmoop du jour brought to you by hygiene, our advice
- 00:07
don't ever say hi to Gene much of a brusher, all right which word is [Man says hi to Gene then runs away because of the smell]
- 00:12
misspelled and here are the potential answers.
- 00:16
Well even though the en syllable shows up in a lot of our options there's no hard and fast rule for
- 00:20
how it needs to be spelled might be nice if English had a whole bunch of simple
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- 00:24
consistent rules but instead it's like some weird violent sport where anything [People playing rugby]
- 00:28
goes you know like rugby, all right well what
- 00:31
can option a do for us, absence has that en syllable and it's spelled in a [Answer A is highlighted]
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perfectly unremarkable way, en. So A is not our guy what about D, physician
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also has that en syllable although spelled in a slightly different way, an. However
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you don't need to go to med school for years to know that so this is the [Guy writes Physician on a blackboard and gets a med school certificate]
- 00:50
correct spelling of the word you might want to go anyway though it could make [The guys mom hugging him]
- 00:53
your mother proud how about C hygiene doesn't have the en
- 00:58
syllable but it's spelled just fine option C can hit the showers what about B [Option B is highlighted]
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Permenance not only has the en syllable once it has a twice unfortunately both
- 01:08
are misspelled it's really spelled this way we know we know the original spelling
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had an an and an en too so what makes this one right and the other one [The syllables are highlighted]
- 01:17
wrong well sadly there's no grand mind-blowing explanation this is the way [Guys head opens and an explosion appears]
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it is so B is our answer, maybe we'll just lie low until genes gone... [Man falls over from Gene's smell]
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