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Description:
Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.
A few of the athletes competing in the triathlon
appearing to had crossed
the finish line already.
Transcript
- 00:03
All right see writing shmoop er's Last sentence in this
- 00:06
section A few of the athletes competing in the traveling
- 00:08
appearing to had crossed the finish line Already this is
- 00:13
a mess Answering this question requires playing a simple two
- 00:19
parts subject and verb game the subject athlete as a
Full Transcript
- 00:24
compound predicated so it's all these words in there So
- 00:29
the first part of the compound predicated is up here
- 00:32
which matches the plural athletes right So it's a moving
- 00:36
thing it's a set of elements that matches that word
- 00:39
that athlete toward their second heart must be in the
- 00:42
same tents is the first We've got to keep everything
- 00:44
in the present tense right So you just say a
- 00:48
few appear to have crossed the finish line already If
- 00:52
you get stuck you khun just did a first thing
- 00:54
in there and get rid of the athletes competing in
- 00:56
the draft Ones got it Don't switch over to the
- 00:59
past tense without a time machine and a and b
- 01:02
there and remember to match the plural athletes with the
- 01:04
plural up here not appears as in be so that's 00:01:08.396 --> [endTime] it we're shmoop were seeds bye
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