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Choose the best alternative to the text below.
location, they must


Transcript

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Okay Next up for aspiring people Three twelve location They

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must have its beginning Paragraph two years Let's skim to

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its original survival Reality show appropriately titled survivor is actually

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a fierce competition with many rules and many twists sent

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to a remote location They must find their own food

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water and shelter while competing in frequent physical challenge is

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interesting We got a lot of days and ambiguous pronouns

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floating around here So let's think about this of the

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underlying portion features a mysterious they which doesn't seem to

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refer to anyone in particular The sentence before doesn't refer

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to anyone specific either Maybe it's the same They who

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were always saying that it's going to rain right and

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wrong In this case though we can infer that they

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refers to show participants are contestants So to clarify our

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subject we should replace the ambiguous pronoun with participants like

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in sea like what they do there Although ambiguous pronouns

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are frustrating don't throw in the towel and take away

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the subject altogether Like doing b don't just gas and

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make the subject singular either like he or she still

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doesn't indicate a specific subject like indeed So it should

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read sent to a remote location Participants must find their

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own food and water a ll that crap Okay that's 00:01:27.463 --> [endTime] it We're done

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