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TSI Writing: Choosing Between Singular and Plural Nouns 17 Views

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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.

The first act includes jugglers with flaming batons and incredibly sharp swords.

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Okay see writing editors Here We're going to jump right
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in the next question The first act includes jugglers with
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flaming batons and incredibly sharp swords All right so what
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about that first act includes juggle All right well the's
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sense just looks okay Way wouldn't necessarily want to juggle

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these atoms ourselves but hey whatever lights your baton is
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they say since act is a singular collective noun while
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even though it sort of seems plural because it consists
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of multiple performers way need the singular form of the
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verb right So it includes heat clued includes got it
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writing the wrong ones Well we would use include be
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right there with a plural noun and we would use
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did includes or had include did something like that if
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we had temporarily forgotten how to speak english Got it
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all right and yeah whatever lights your baton and nobody
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says that you get rid of that All right it's
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a war shmoop
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