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We hope you know the difference between "their" and "they're" but we're going to go over it anyway in this fun SAT Writing video on The Well-Rounded Curriculum....because how can you ultimately be a well-rounded student if you don't know the difference between those two word.

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Okay Essay writing shmoop er's here we go Two of
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eleven there Yes that's it that's all we're looking at
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so let's go back through here and this is just
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a grammar question It is the making of connection through
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a rich arts inclusive curriculum that ultimately empowers the student

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to develop convictions and reach their full academic and social
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potential All right well the possessive determiner there refers to
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the singular noun student The problem is there is plural
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since we're referring to only one student and that soon
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gender is unknown While we need to give the option
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of both singular pronoun his or her there a would
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be correct on ly if the sentence had more than
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one student which it doesn't though that is technically correct
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it muddies the meaning of the sentence making it unclear
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who's potentials being reached Yeah like a robot's mayor a
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ghost in the background there there's is the wrong part
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of speech it's possessive pronoun not to mention a plural
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one but sentence calls for a possessive determiner so it's
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his or her not their and our problem is done
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