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ACT Aspire Reading: Summarizing Events
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Which of the following sentences provides the best description of the events in the passage?

ACT Aspire Reading: Recognizing Explicit Details
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ACT Aspire English: Using Possessive Nouns Correctly 2 Views


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Choose the best alternative to the text below.
Our houses' roof


Transcript

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Okay Aspiring shmoop er's I've got another one for you

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Three of twelve here Focus our houses Roof there What

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does that mean Okay we had our first paragraph here

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We skim it them and some of you from hearing

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god's going to really have been in my life and

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shake my child in a minute First name day Six

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years spent living panel on my mom with the best

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years of my life Our house is roof was made

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of sheets of heavy aluminum and the afternoon rains beat

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down on it lulling us to sleep in hammocks on

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the covered patio are thousand Well how many houses do

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they have Interesting Well since the author probably only had

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one house not several that somehow managed to share the

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same roof We know that we're looking for a singular

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house in our answer joyce That narrows it down to

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be or sees We get rid of a body right

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away off that goodbye guys We're dealing with a nice

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singular possessive here without any funny business You know we're

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watching you It's yeah we know you do that Well

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all we need to do to make house possessive is

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at an apostrophe and an s like that So that

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leaves us with correct answer house's roof which is see

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and well that's it We'll see you on the next 00:01:15.78 --> [endTime] question

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