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All right Ask firas Here we go on question six

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of twelve The university's policy Clearly something wrong with this

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in paragraph two let's skim down with meredith attended jackson

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state university an all black school for two years during

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the time he applied repeatedly for admission and old miss

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university an all white school each time he was denied

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admission because of the university's policy of racial segregation despite

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his strong academic qualifications all right Well the policy belongs

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to the university of mississippi so it deserves the appropriate

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possessive since it's only one university albeit one that definitely

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has more than its fair share of s is way

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can make it possessive by adding an apostrophe and an

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s like that carefully place that apostrophe s you go

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carefully Put it there gently One misstep creates a sense

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with an entirely different meaning Like when you forget a

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comma on let's eat grandma and she becomes dinner And

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you guys are cannibals all right Policies as in see

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their misses the point because the policy doesn't own anything

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And universities as indeed refers to the policy of mohr

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than one university right universities is just the plural form

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of university But it isn't possessive like in a so

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the answer is b the university's policy And it should

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read each time he was denied admission because of the

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university's policy of racial segregation Yamagata So that's it It's

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b We're moving on

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