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challenge winners' receive prizes
Transcript
- 00:02
All right Spirals were for twelve into this thing on
- 00:05
survival on tv All right next up challenge winners receive
- 00:10
prizes I'm clearly something's wrong here Alright Skipping down to
- 00:14
the original driver saw problem survivors actually cos many rule
- 00:17
may twist central location and we've never been move it
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- 00:22
free and physical challenges The challenge winner is a apostrophe
- 00:27
in the wrong place There received prizes like food or
- 00:30
immunity from being voted off the show or catching ebola
- 00:35
All right well let's think about it The fact that
- 00:41
people are receiving things might suggest that a possessive is
- 00:44
somehow involved but don't fall for it The challenge winners
- 00:48
might be given prizes but sense doesn't say that the
- 00:51
prizes belong to them Also winners can't own receive crime
- 00:56
It's a verb not a thing which is another clue
- 00:59
that the possessive doesn't belong here To answer this question
- 01:02
we can eliminate all the answer choices that include a
- 01:05
possessive like b and c There the apostrophe three choices
- 01:10
The winner like d right there challenge winners receive prizes
- 01:14
That's it We're done It's the
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