Aug 2017

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580 GG. Introductory Paragraphs. One of ...

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Listeners sent in many more interesting phrases from obsolete technologies, and we also talk about how to write a great introductory paragraph and tricky sentence that include "one of the [plural nouns]"--which verb do you use?

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