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- 00:04
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by superintendence their
- 00:07
superheroes who intend to save the world but don't ever really get around to it [Batman in a cave watchinv TV]
- 00:12
which of the sentences is spelled correctly and here the potential answers
- 00:17
[mumbling]
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all right, so this one's trickier than just looking at four individual words here we've got
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- 00:26
four whole sentences full of words that could trip us up good thing we remember [Boy falls over on a path]
- 00:30
to tie our shoelaces this morning right people? alright let's take these one by
- 00:35
one and see what's shakin option A; the celebrasion lasted until much later than
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eleven o'clock well we've been to a celebration before but not a celebrasion [People dressed in colorful clothing dancing]
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that's like abrasion which is like a scrape and trust us when you get a bad scrape [girl sat down with a scrape on her knee]
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on your knees last thing you feel like doing is throwing a party so yeah there
- 00:53
should be a T in this word, not an S we can skip it what about B you must
- 00:57
immediately proceed to your own dorm room sounds alright but if you type it [person typing on a laptop]
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into Microsoft Word that way well you get one of those red squiggly line
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thingy's, so there must be something wrong. Well it turns out the second E should
- 01:09
actually be an I unlike E-A-T-E it's I-A-T-E, actually a common word
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ending like in mediate, initiate, deviate, and our good friend immediate, so B
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isn't right either next up D; it was a violatian of the
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individuals right nope we've seen enough tion words in our day to know that
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something looks funky here that E should be an O [girl staring at the Mona Lisa painting]
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alright here we are C.. The superintendent visited campus yesterday
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huh all those words check out so yeah C is our answer awesome, we didn't even
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need Batman and save the day for us good thing too because his hot pocket is [Batman waiting for a hot pocket to finish heating in the microwave]
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ready
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