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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
- 00:23
needs to be made to sentence six and hear the
- 00:27
potential answers Right World's world famous things Okay let's give
- 00:32
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
- 00:48
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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