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@Serge Gray Thanks Serge

@Shane Peterson Well, well, well. So, the woman indicates, without blinking her eyelash, that pollution is responsible for the low birth rate? India faces severe environmental pollution, particularly regarding air quality, with 83 of the 100 most polluted cities in the world located there in 2023. What about the population there?

@Shane Peterson "how hard you need to abuse" - is there something lacking in it, like "need to try", or is that sentence grammatically correct?

@Fulya Acun Now you nailed it. Congrats!

@Gulistan Asan @Fulya Acun @Serge Gray @Alex Understated @Evelyne Vincent @Linus Z @Mariel Liang @Siyi Yu Thank you guys very much for giving a go to the challenge. Just to put everything in order I'm giving the answer below: 1. the dogs eat the bones. 2.The dogs ate the bones. 3. The dogs are eating the bones. 4. The dogs'll eat the bones. 5. The dogs'd eat the bones. 6. The gogs'd've eaten the bones. 7. The dogs that've eaten the bones. 8. The dogs've eaten the bones 9. The dogs'd eaten the bones. 10. The dogs'll've eaten the bones. 11.The dogs ought to eat the bones. 12. The dogs should eat the bones. 13. The dogs shouldn't eat the bones. 14.The dogs should'ev eaten the bones. 15. The dogs shouldn't've eaten the bones. 16.The dogs could eat the bones. 17. the dogs couldn't eat the bones. 18. The dogs could've eaten the bones. 19 The dogs couldn't've eaten the bones. 20. The dogs might eat the bones. 21. The dogs might've eaten the bones. 22. The dogs must eat the bones. 23.The dogs must've eaten the bones. 24. The dogs can eat the bones. 25. The dogs can't eat the bones. Uff... that's it. Now, I would like to come up with the suggestion that listening consists of three major skills. The first one is sound (no surprise here, you know, pronunciation, cancelation, reduction, blending, strong-weak sound combinations and so on). The second one is what I call "reading the room" - perceiving the vibe, gauging the mood, sense the atmosphere of the conversation, also cultural background and all that stuff. The third is sounds patterns - typical chunks of speech, collocations - you don't have to hear everything to know what is being said. Those three factors cooperate in our brains and render us with understanding. Tell me what you think. Have a great ....(you know what goes in the dot space)!