[Video] Q2: No change (its) or it's or there or their

Answer Choices

  • NO CHANGE (its)

  • it's

  • there

  • their

Explanation for Question 2 From the Writing Section on the 2018 March Sat

Hey everybody. So question two reads conventional agriculture 2 uses 70% of the world's available drinking water for irrigation. 3 All vertical farming techniques are much more efficient in its use of water. 4 So what the question is dealing with here, 5 as you can see from the answer choices is how are we going to 6 refer to these vertical farming techniques in regards 7 to their use of water? So just running through our options real quick, 8 uh, we have it's it's there and there. 9 So these, you know, obviously look the same, 10 um, and let's just run through what each level each one of these means 11 it's, um, the first option with no apostrophe, 12 that's just going to be a possessive usage usage of the term it's. 13 So if you're saying, um, 14 um, the lamp had a light bulb, 15 uh, it's a light bulb socket, 16 so I'm looking at lamps. Maybe we think of it. 17 Uh that's that's an example of how you would use that in regards to 18 a singular item. And that's when you use it without an apostrophe it with 19 an apostrophe. So it's, um, 20 it's just a abbreviation of it is a contraction. 21 Um, there option C T H E R E is like 22 a location saying, let's go over there. Whereas option D there is a 23 possessive usage of there. It's like if I said, 24 uh, the group of people went into their car, 25 so they're that type of their T H T I R is possessive for 26 a group. So, or I'm missing something that's plural. 27 So what we're going to be dealing with here is figuring out, 28 we...

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