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great whites body
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- 00:02
All right A c t s Firoz Here we go
- 00:04
We got the five of twelve great white's body right
- 00:07
there that's or focusing on And it's in paragraph too
- 00:11
So let's just skim here like the movie jaws Yeah
- 00:14
yeah the one of the reasons i'm in a very
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- 00:16
much a measuring up to twenty five feet long Great
- 00:19
whites have large triangular teeth that can be seen protruding
- 00:24
from their mouths adding to their frightening appearance to all
- 00:27
the orthodontist in the ocean They're dark grey with a
- 00:31
white underbelly The great white's body is shaped like a
- 00:35
torpedo and it has large dorsal lateral in jail All
- 00:39
right the question here is the great wide shaped like
- 00:42
a torpedo Or was the torpedo shaped like a great
- 00:45
white Yeah Which came first Yeah When in a contest
- 00:48
darwin always wins Well the clue that we're dealing with
- 00:51
a single great white as opposed to something horrifying like
- 00:54
a zillion great whites particularly you know if they're hungry
- 00:58
and cranky is the use of the singular pronoun it
- 01:01
later in the sentence Since it's one great white all
- 01:05
we need todo is slap on an apostrophe and an
- 01:09
s to make the correct possessive form of great white
- 01:13
body So the answer there is the great white's body
- 01:17
is shaved blah blah blah Yeah sorry we can't get
- 01:20
out of this one by avoiding the possessive altogether And
- 01:23
so get rid of a we'll need to put that
- 01:25
impossibly somewhere if we put it at the end of
- 01:27
white It sounds like we're talking about the bodies of
- 01:30
many great whites which you don't want to go there
- 01:33
We can't make body possessive because the body belongs to
- 01:36
the great white not the other way around Right Well
- 01:39
uh this is starting to sound a little gruesome so
- 01:41
let's just move right along Moving on moving on Great 00:01:44.953 --> [endTime] white's body in no sharknado no sharknado
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