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Its...or is it it's? Watch this SAT drill to help unravel that age old question.
Transcript
- 00:03
All right people next up on the hit parade of
- 00:05
this sign articles were perusing here It's ok you go
- 00:09
and get control committee they use for expensive getting less
- 00:11
and less cars lower The cost of the materials wouldn't
- 00:12
get us for bothering to product essential in our community
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- 00:14
Kind of going like people Then what about okay so
- 00:17
clearly enable its use So what is it referring to
- 00:22
there We're going to have to go back and do
- 00:25
a little looks and well according to this sentence advanced
- 00:27
composites could be used in all sorts of ways if
- 00:30
they weren't so incredibly expensive The subject is these materials
- 00:35
So the pronoun in question it's needs to refer to
- 00:39
advanced composites which is plural and be possessive will The
- 00:44
only choice that fits the bill here is they're not
- 00:47
it's It is a single thing like it The movie
- 00:50
See it it's really scary There would be like if
- 00:53
there were more than one It like the sequel if
- 00:55
it has babies so yeah so we can get rid
- 00:57
of all the rest and the answer is b there
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