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Sorry Fame here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by jackson pollock once sneezed on a canvas and well

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art history was made All right well we're reading cubism

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Holographic oman aoki's expressionist boy a lot of five dollar

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words here Five dollar word like painting And we're done

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reading Lie Well couldn't we say we are What change

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needs to be made to sentence six and hear the

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potential answers Right World's world famous things Okay let's give

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the sentence a quick scan way Yeah There we go

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Many of the world's most famous artists were abstract artists

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No All right well yep Our sensors detect a problem

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So let's go ahead and get rid of the right

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off the bat Great At least that's one of these

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guys out of our hair Choice b will be the

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next to go in the original sentence Famous is an

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adjective describing the noun artists Well this totally passes grammatical

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inspection If we changed Famous to famously however the inspection

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wouldn't go so well Famously is an adverb The elle

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Why ending kind of gives it away it's against the

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rules for an adverb to describe a noun so we

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can say goodbye to option b We're also going to

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give option c the boot changing word toe Woz will

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put us on the fast track to a grammatical mess

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In the original sentence the plural verb were describes the

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action of the plural noun artists everything's kosher Here you

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see a little kosher signing That means it's Cool If

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we change word to the singular virtue wass however well

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the sentence is doomed like you threw in a big

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hunk of pork in there In that all right option

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is the best answer Thie issue with the senses that

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world's needs an apostrophe s instead of just an ass

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by itself without the apostrophe worlds is plural Well what

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kind of sense does that make Are we talking about

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artists from morgan One world like mars or somewhere has

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the least found a hidden cache of alien art long

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kept from the public by the government Because well actually

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all right well no nothing like that But she just

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needs to make worlds possessive by adding an apostrophe Thes

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artists are owned by this world and this world alone

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And yeah well this world is a little clean Well 00:02:14.71 --> [endTime] they get just there

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