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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by cheerleading or for

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those with poor leadership skills cheer following yeah, check out the following sentence[Cheerleaders dancing on a football pitch]

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Sarah is headed to cheerleading practice all right so which of the pronouns would you

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use to replace Sarah? And here potential answer all right well who could ever

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replace Sarah she's one of a kind we just want to switch it out with a [Sarah dancing in a cheerleading costume]

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pronoun gotcha so here's the question what word can we use in place of Sarah's name

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that won't change the meaning or in tan of the original sentence..Well Sarah could [Boy with a sarah label dancing in a cheerleader costume]

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totally be the name of a boy on the cheerleading team but that aint

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likely so let's assume Sarah is indeed a girl and eliminate D, He. We can also

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definitely cut option C from the running unless Sarah is the name of a very [an unlit floor lamp]

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talented cheerleading floor lamp, she isn't an it. Her gets the gender right

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but the word her indicates possession her pencil her book bag her shmoop and

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so on the sentence is telling us what Sarah is doing not what she possesses so

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give us an N give us an O, yeah what's that spell? yeah no sorry option B better [Cheerleaders holding up letters N and O]

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luck next time the correct answer is option A; she. She is headed to

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cheerleading practice still make sense and Sarah gets to you know remain a girl

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why are those girls heading to cheerleading practice behind Sarah, it's like

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she picked up a couple of cheer followers along the way [Boys dressed as cheerleaders dancing to Sarah]

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