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The word "affects" might need some tweaking in this SAT Writing passage...but how? Go over the options by watching this video.
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All right Essay writing Shmoop er's Just few more Hold
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your breath thing in their next one up affects All
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right well here we go it's the same paragraph along
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with them Skim thank you for saving me from that
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man but damn that was issues such as storm water
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management environmental regulations in historic preservation Already fx employment growth
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and continued use of the verb affects must be changed
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to be a plural conjugation affect because the verb here
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needs to agree with the plural subject issues right So
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he issues they issue right He singular they were using
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the singular verb affects makes it sound like only the
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last item on the list is affecting employment growth so
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it ain't no change The present participle affecting needs a
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helper verbs like is to be grammatically correct So can't
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be c the word already is a clue that sentences
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about the present that doesn't make any sense to change
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the verb to the future Sorry we're going to affect
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you this way They were singular and we just affected 00:01:03.991 --> [endTime] you are we kind of affected and probably sorry
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