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Thank you We sneak in Sorry And here's your shmoop

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du jour brought to you by budget cuts Don't be

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surprised if this video powers down before it's done Wait

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we don't cut budgets around here you're kidding Where the

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rules royce of video production steven spielberg your heart out

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Okay we're done We're done skimming That is alright what's

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the correct way to write sentence three choices rejection Okay

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so the big problem here is that public education is

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capitalized Usually we only capitalized proper noun like barack obama

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Albuquerque and mr volker are weird neighbor who crams his

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guard with statues of himself but separate issue there anyway

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Public education doesn't reference something specific enough to be considered

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a proper noun This makes it a common noun and

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like all calm announce it should not be capitalized Knowing

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this helps us to quickly eliminate a which leaves public

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education capitalized is actually extra wrong since it uses the

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plural verb refer to refer to the singular noun education

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original sentence three is right in using the singular verb

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refers like he refers don't go getting full of yourself

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sitting three you've still got your problems though so goodbye

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anyway choice see has the same Issue as the original

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How many times do we have to say that public

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education should not be capitalized And c is also unnecessarily

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wordy so it's a definite no meanwhile choice dee is

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the awkward ist sentence that ever awkward it we did

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there monday You really think it's a good idea for

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thomas to use that phrase to the schools of elementary

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middle and high in his paper Well phrases like that

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make it sound like he didn't pay attention in any

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of the schools he attended and be finally solves the

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problem here Since public education isn't a proper noun it

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doesn't need to be capitalized However we can use quotation

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marks to show that we are using a term that

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some people defined differently in this case be correctly uses

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quotation marks and keeps the grammatical structure of the sentence

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which happened to be correct to begin with the astute

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shmoop er may ask do we have to have quotation

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marks here which we say no but it's a nice

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touch which one might say well what if i don't

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feel like it to which we say fine don't if

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you want your paper to be mediocre Okay sorry we 00:02:24.03 --> [endTime] officially went too far with that scenario No

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