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TSI Writing: Identifying the Correct Subject of a Sentence 10 Views


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Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.

Pepé's talents in engineering and marathon running proves his mental and physical strength.


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Okay see Writing shmoop firs More shmoop job training for

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you in editing these crappy are excellent senses Here we

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go Pepe's talents and engineering and marathon running proves his

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mental and physical strength heart his talents prove no fair

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this dude talented engineer and marathon runner all right while

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some people get all the luck not everything is perfect

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here though because this sentence has a problem with subject

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verb agreement We're talking about two talents so the subject

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is plural for the verb must be plural as well

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right His talents prove it So it's c yeah proves

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is for singular subject Don't be fooled by the prep

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positional phrase stuck nicely in between to throw us off

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like in engineering and marathon running putting the verb in

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the past tense creates chaos You don't wanna do that

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like proven and while changing the verb to a different

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one also changes the meaning of the whole sentence So

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yeah you don't want to go there that's it it's 00:01:01.957 --> [endTime] They were shmoop upped and we're out of breath

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