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Texas EOC English 1: Editing Drill 1, Problem 1
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- 00:00
Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by abstract art which despite its name is remarkably focused
- 00:10
Yeah like that Check out the following passage Haskell are
- 00:14
real art So you did I must do keep All
- 00:26
right tell me the monet We're done All right what
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- 00:30
change needs to be made to sentence one And here
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the pendulum All right well there's nothing tricky here The
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only thing to do is get under the hood of
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the sense and see what's going on Representational art has
- 00:44
a specific subject and that subject is rendered in a
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style that leaves them identifiable Run All right well she
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might be a fixer upper but we've got it under
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control right off the bat We can eliminate option a
- 00:57
changing rendered to render rings would make the sense grammatically
- 01:02
correct would only suggest this choice to release if we
- 01:05
were secretly trying to sabotage your paper which we're not
- 01:09
we're going to get rid of option cia's well replacing
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identifiable with identified would distort the meaning of the sense
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funhouse mirrors maybe well fun but that effect isn't so
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cool when we're writing an essay Option b is the
- 01:22
right answer here as is the sentence contains the plural
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pronoun ram which refers to the singular noun subject That's
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not gonna cut it around here to fix the sense
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at least has to replace them with the singular pronoun
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it and that's it Now she has a singular pronoun
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to match her singular noun And all is well in
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the world Well except in the world of choice D
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which is apparently world that's Cool with grammatical errors Condi
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We expect more of you here with
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