Answer Choices
NO CHANGE
his
its
their
Explanation for Question 15 From the Writing Section on the 2018 May Sat
Question number 15 is asking us about which, 2 um, pronoun we should use here. 3 Um, the sentence here is Conan Doyle wanted to dedicate one's 4 energies elsewhere. One here we usually use when the subject 5 is unclear. It's more generic. Um, 6 we're speaking to a wider audience. If we're making maybe a general statement about 7 why, if that could be broadly applicable, we'll say one, 8 one, does this something, something. 9 Um, so we use one sort of, for those general cases where the subject 10 at hand could really apply to a lot of different individuals in this case, 11 we're very specifically talking about the author. 12 So it doesn't make sense to you is that we want to use, 13 um, a singular pronoun, 14 um, for the author because our authors male, 15 male singular is going to be his. 16 Um, so be as our best answer choice for 15 it's C would be 17 referring to if we had, um, 18 maybe an object that we were referring to, 19 but we're not going to use it's for a person. 20 So we eliminate C and choice D is also going to be used for 21 a object potentially. Um, 22 if it's plural, but it can also be used for, 23 um, a personal, 24 um, when you're talking about people, plural, um, 25 in this case that we're not talking about multiple people, 26 we're only talking about one author it's singular. 27 So that's why choice be his as a better word to use.