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TSI Writing: Is the Subject of this Sentence Singular or Plural? 9 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.

The threat of high winds and sleet, in addition to the severe cold, makes it increasingly unlikely that the ceremony will be held outdoors.


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Okay see Writing shmoop er's We got verb tense We're

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trying to make the verbs relax here a little bit

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Its subject verb agreement and pronoun agreement That's the big

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focus here So let's just dive right in First sentence

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we're gonna edit here is we auditioned for jobs from

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appealing All right The threat of high winds and sleet

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in addition to the severe cold makes it increasingly unlikely

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that the ceremony will be held outdoors What's wrong with

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that Looking at it Well we probably won't be going

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to this ceremony of the weather's that bad were all

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for singing in the rain and everything but there's a

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reason the movie wasn't called singing in the high winds

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and yeah it would make for a much more depressing

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film that if everyone got blown away killed or whatever

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But speaking of not changing things that already worked well

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this sentence makes perfect sense Just as is the subject

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threat which is singular already agrees with the verb makes

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and that's it umbrellas up yeah never pair a singular

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subject with a plural verb That's the big learning from

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being c and skipping the verb home together is a

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no go with the like that was the diet plate

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They didn't get too so that's It makes it increasingly

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unlikely that ceremony will be held Okay we're done We're

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smoked but are verbs They're still tense so they're learning 00:01:19.833 --> [endTime] howto netflix and chill here

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