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And here's your Shmoop du jour brought to you by candles a

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great way to lighten up the room, unless you happen to be Frankenstein's monster. [Candle appears in front of Frankenstein and he runs away]

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(Mumbling) All right here's your question fill in the blank with the

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correct interrogative pronoun. Blank of those candles do you want? All right

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here are the potential answers. (Laughs) there's a good one. All right well here's a quick hopefully

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illuminating hint if you can figure out what the sentence is trying to

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communicate it's a lot easier to figure out the right pronoun. After all the [Man has an idea and a bulb lights up]

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better you know the problem the easier it is to pick the right tool for the job.

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Better than just sticking your hand in the tool box and picking up the first

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thing you find, seriously.. what if.. what if it's a rat and no one's happy including [Man holds up a rat]

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the rat. We could just brute force this thing and try each option until we find

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the one that sounds right, okay instead let's follow the hint and try to figure

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out what the sentence is meant to communicate even without the missing

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pronoun we have a pretty good sense of what's going on with this sentence. There's

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a bunch of candles and someone's being asked to pick the ones they want well not

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exactly the most exciting scene in the world but you don't always need to jump

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out of an airplane to defuse a bomb.. Sometimes you just need to pick a few candles. [Man jumps out of a aeroplane with a parachute on]

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When we were trying to pick some things out of a group of other things whether

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their candles or Tigers or even Tiger shaped candles we always use the same

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pronoun which we can even try it out in the sentence if we're not completely

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sure. Which of those candles do you want? Sounds like a perfect match for us so C

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is our answer now that we've settled that we can turn to the more pressing

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question of which light source will be the least threatening to the [Boy holding a light saber]

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Frankenstein monster there. We're guessing he's not a fan of electricity probably

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some post-traumatic reanimation disorder related to that yeah... [Frankenstein shaking next to static ball]

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