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ACT Aspire English: It's All in the Past (Tense) 28 Views
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Description:
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that such a thing is possible
Transcript
- 00:03
All right Firing shmoop er's We've got a whole bunch
- 00:06
of questions for you all about technology You having forever
- 00:10
changed the music industry So here we go First paragraph
- 00:13
fifty years ago Difficult Imagine people will be able to
- 00:15
download the stream use from the internet In fact years
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- 00:17
ago the internet itself was unimaginable It's ever after a
- 00:20
few we live in It's a tricky thing is possible
- 00:23
That's where filters down there The problem with the underline
- 00:29
portion right there is that it's in the present tense
- 00:32
like is is that present But the part that comes
- 00:36
before it is in the past tense so things don't
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match Basically this relationship is not going to work out
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Two pieces of this sentence are different points in their
- 00:45
lives that we've all gotten Those break up letters We
- 00:47
generally indicate verb tenses consistent within a sentence and within
- 00:52
paragraphs is well unless the context fires us to switch
- 00:56
tenses Well in keeping with this aim we should avoid
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the president ten So get rid of a in favor
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of the past tense Not on ly should the tenses
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be compatible But pronoun should get along as well which
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doesn't refer to the internet Which is what the passages
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discussing it So the answer is b and it should
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read blob of love of law in elite few who
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knew that such a thing was possible So that's it 00:01:24.823 --> [endTime] no
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