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cover of episode Why 'I' takes plural verbs. Making names that end in S, like Harris and Biles, possessive. Marinate.

Why 'I' takes plural verbs. Making names that end in S, like Harris and Biles, possessive. Marinate.

2024/7/30
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  1. We look at why the pronoun "I" seems to take plural verbs, and then we talk about a grammar topic that's in the news: how to make names that end in S (like Harris and Biles) possessive.

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