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ACT English: Passage Drill Drill 2, Problem 12. Which possessive pronoun is correct?

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And here's your smoke du jour brought to you by

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possessive pronouns Yeah they're kind of clingy All right check

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out following passage and answer that question below of lung

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trying to bathe a cat like you What did you

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do in a former life right Okay well how would

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you correct the following underlined portion from the passage doesn't

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need correcting Yes my thing here All right all right

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Thinking we're pausing let's Go All right Well the underland

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word is a possessive pronoun signaling that the cat in

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question belonged to the writer The trouble is that the

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cat to which this sentence is referring isn't the writer's

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It is in fact the cats mentioned by the internet

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guy So this means we can next choice a off

00:58

the bat which is incorrect because the instructions aren't specifically

01:02

about the writer's cat How weird would be if we

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found an anonymous article written about our cat in creepy

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All right well let's check out what choice b has

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to offer Well nothing of any use that's for sure

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Putting the possessive pronoun it's here makes it sound like

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the cat is owned by the internet guy Well maybe

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we're not up on the newest technology but as far

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as we know there aren't any internet articles that own

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pet us we can take Be on table c is

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incorrect for the same reason And not only does it

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make it sound like the guide Owns the cat It

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also uses a plural pronoun there when the writer is

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only referring to one guide single joyce gives us the

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word of yours Well this is correct because in this

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context the throne and refers to all the cats and

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the internet god general readership No doubt This is just

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what the author was going for it so we can

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declare the key the right hand We wrote a cat

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moving guide It would consist of one sentence Don't do 00:01:56.912 --> [endTime] it

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