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All right Reading from proves another sentence for you Here

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we go Ida hated the raccoon that lives somewhere in

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her backyard because last summer they ate all of her

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garbage and left wrappers all over her driveway Like you

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got problems here They and it don't you think Go

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raccoons nature's robin hood stealing from the rich giving to

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the poor gorging themselves on garbage Well it's been a

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while since we've read that story What This questions all

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about making sure that parallelism is alive and well on

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ly the sentence with a singular pronoun in a past

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tense verb solves our problems Ideas On the other hand

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well we recommend meditation and maybe some poison there may

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be no we like reckons sorry Just kidding Just kidding

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All right Well the pronoun they is plural and the

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noun raccoon is singular So we have an issue with

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agreement there in a and b i'd only hates one

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raccoon so the sentence should on ly refer to a

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single unlucky little dude Splitting this sentence into two would

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be okay if it wasn't for the mismatch verb tenses

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like and see there the present tense eats doesn't match

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The past sins left So that's it It's the summer 00:01:11.372 --> [endTime] in eight ball

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