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step 1 Okay, now we're looking at question number nine. So the sentence in question is, the elaborate f

Harry and Meghan have decided to work and become financially...

Key Concepts

Subject-Verb Agreement

This concept involves ensuring that the verb correctly corresponds in number with its subject. In the sentence provided, 'Harry and Meghan' is a plural subject, which necessitates the use of the plural auxiliary 'have' rather than 'has', which is singular.

Parallel Structure

Parallel structure means that elements in a sentence that have the same function should be written in a similar format. In the sentence, the correct form 'to work and become' maintains parallelism by keeping both verbs in the same infinitive form, ensuring clarity and balance in the sentence.

Transcript

00:01 Okay, now we're looking at question number nine.

00:02 So the sentence in question is, the elaborate frosting -like designs being a later addition to this neoclassical house, though they didn't come about in the way the romantic legend describes.

00:14 You might notice that that's a little bit cumbersome, which is a clear indicator that there's something wrong here, that this little word, even though it's not very much that's linking the ideas together, is out of adjustment.

00:25 So we'll try the other answer choices.

00:31 The elaborate frosting -like designs were being a later addition, were a later addition, or making up a later edition.

00:41 I would say the ones that probably sound best to your ear are were or were being.

00:47 The reason is because they contain the verb.

00:51 Then you go back and you say every complete sentence or what we would call an independent clause, meaning that it's a complete sentence or a complete thought within a sentence, has to have a subject and it has to have a verb.

01:03 The subject is like the leading noun.

01:05 So that usually comes at the very beginning.

01:07 The elaborate frosting -like designs.

01:09 So as simply as possible, designs is our subject.

01:14 What about the designs? designs being a later addition to this neoclassical house? i'm waiting for the verb to arrive and it has not yet arrived.

01:22 Being is not a verb.

01:23 You wouldn't say designs being.

01:26 You could say designs were, designs are, designs have, designs...

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