[Video] Q23: No change or it’s or its’ or their

Explanation for Question 23 From the Writing Section on the 2017 April Sat

Question number 23 toward the end of the 14 hundreds as the Renaissance 2 was reaching its height in Florence, Italy members of the city's powerful bull Guild 3 were celebrating their recently celebrated or excuse me recently completed city Q3. 4 Joel. So what we're looking at here is this word it's, 5 um, and just trying to make sure that that's the right word here. 6 Recall that when we have it's like this with no apostrophe, 7 um, it's kind of a different meaning from it's with an apostrophe, 8 this indicates possession, 9 um, when we don't have that apostrophe and we do have that apostrophe, 10 we have the meaning of it is it's a contraction form. 11 Um, and then choice. See, we kind of say that option of it's with 12 the apostrophe after the posture be after indicates that we have plural 13 possession, um, 14 this isn't usually seen, 15 but that's what it would mean if we had that apostrophe after the ass. 16 So looking at our answer choices, 17 what we're talking about is possession. The Renaissance was reaching its height. 18 So the height belongs to the Renaissance. 19 It's the Renaissance's height. So, 20 because we're talking about possession of a singular thing, 21 the Renaissance, that's just one. Um, 22 we want the singular possession of it's with no apostrophe. 23 That's going to be the no change option. So we select answer choice a 24 for number 23,