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ACT Aspire English: It's All in the Past (Tense)
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Choose the best alternative to the text below.that such a thing is possible

ACT Aspire English: Revising for Clarity
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ACT Aspire English: Plural v. Plural Possessive 5 Views


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challenge winners' receive prizes


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All right Spirals were for twelve into this thing on

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survival on tv All right next up challenge winners receive

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prizes I'm clearly something's wrong here Alright Skipping down to

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the original driver saw problem survivors actually cos many rule

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may twist central location and we've never been move it

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free and physical challenges The challenge winner is a apostrophe

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in the wrong place There received prizes like food or

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immunity from being voted off the show or catching ebola

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All right well let's think about it The fact that

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people are receiving things might suggest that a possessive is

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somehow involved but don't fall for it The challenge winners

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might be given prizes but sense doesn't say that the

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prizes belong to them Also winners can't own receive crime

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It's a verb not a thing which is another clue

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that the possessive doesn't belong here To answer this question

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we can eliminate all the answer choices that include a

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possessive like b and c There the apostrophe three choices

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The winner like d right there challenge winners receive prizes

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That's it We're done It's the

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