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SAT Writing and Language Drill 6.2 Sentence Structure 3 Views
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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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- 00:03
Okay Essay writing shmoop er's here we go Two of
- 00:06
eleven there Yes that's it that's all we're looking at
- 00:09
so let's go back through here and this is just
- 00:11
a grammar question It is the making of connection through
- 00:14
a rich arts inclusive curriculum that ultimately empowers the student
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- 00:17
to develop convictions and reach their full academic and social
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potential All right well the possessive determiner there refers to
- 00:25
the singular noun student The problem is there is plural
- 00:28
since we're referring to only one student and that soon
- 00:31
gender is unknown While we need to give the option
- 00:33
of both singular pronoun his or her there a would
- 00:37
be correct on ly if the sentence had more than
- 00:39
one student which it doesn't though that is technically correct
- 00:44
it muddies the meaning of the sentence making it unclear
- 00:46
who's potentials being reached Yeah like a robot's mayor a
- 00:49
ghost in the background there there's is the wrong part
- 00:52
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
- 00:58
his or her not their and our problem is done
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