[Video] Q20: No change or its or there or their

Explanation for Question 20 From the Writing Section on the 2018 May Sat

Okay. Question number 20 looks at this detail here. 2 Strand editors panicked as 20,000 people canceled its 3 subscriptions. So this is the main part that we're looking at 20,000 4 people canceling subscriptions. So we want to know which pronoun is really appropriate 5 to use here. The no change option a is definitely incorrect. 6 It's here with an apostrophe means it is. 7 So that wouldn't make sense. We wouldn't want to say people canceled. 8 It is subscriptions. Um, 9 the probably better answer choice for that, 10 that word it's is going to be answer choice B this again. 11 Isn't correct though, because it's refers to a singular PR 12 um, a singular subject. So here, 13 our subject is 20,000 people. 14 This is obviously plural. We're talking about multiple people, 15 so we don't want to use that singular pronoun. 16 We want to use a plural one, um, 17 which is going to be answer choice D there. 18 Um, this is the plural pronoun. 19 It makes more sense to use that with 20,000 people. 20 Uh, the reason that choice is out this form of there would be referring 21 to kind of the place. It's not a pronoun. 22 It doesn't illustrate any type of possession. 23 Um, their subscriptions, it's a place he might say, 24 meet me over there. So Tracy is the wrong form of there. 25 That's why we can eliminate that one as well. So for question number 20, 26 we want to choose the plural pronoun. 27 That's going to be choice D there T H E I R.