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Thank you and here's your shmoop du jour brought to

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you by style Hopefully the sea makes the best dressed

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list During the following passage releases our teacher riel arch

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cubism with that it's like colorful block that you turned

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it off colors Okay we're done What change needs to

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be made to sentence seventeen and hear the potential answers

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All right so then seventeen Here we go All of

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these artists had very different styles but there are still

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some commonality between them All right well it doesn't need

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a total overhaul Just some minor tweaking Well on second

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thought meaning a total overhaul let's begin by getting rid

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of our option A styles with an apostrophe s is

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possessive and totally unnecessary Here as is stiles is a

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plural noun and that's exactly what this sentence needs Because

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we're talking about the styles of many different artists Yes

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This is a classic case of different brush strokes for

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different brush votes are anyway Option b suggest that we

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snip the comma after stiles While unfortunately this isn't great

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advice Removing the comma would transform the sentence into a

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run on because akama is required before the conjunction But

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and no one likes a run on all right Well

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the correct answer is option c This sentence uses the

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singular noun commonality instead of the plural noun commonalities If

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we look closer the words are and some clue us

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in that Well We need the plural and because we

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found an error yeah we could lose opportunity What similarities

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do we have with great artist Well for starters we 00:01:43.559 --> [endTime] both understand the importance of a good smoke This

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