[Video] Q10: No change or painting's merit's or paintings' merits or paintings merit's

Explanation for Question 10 From the Writing Section on the 2019 October Sat

Now number 10 is a question about apostrophes. 2 And so something that's important to know is that an apostrophe in the case 3 of normal words, right? So an apostrophe equals possession. 4 It's actually the opposite. When you talk about it, 5 apostrophe S that's an exception, but in this case, 6 all of the words here with an apostrophe are going to show possession. 7 And so the first thing we should see, right, is that these crowds are 8 going to judge the paintings merits. 9 And so the, the merits don't actually possess anything, 10 if anything, it's the paintings that possess the merits, 11 right? So when we see that, we should know that merits needs to have 12 no apostrophe, whereas paintings should have an apostrophe, 13 right? So that, with that in mind, 14 we can eliminate a B because it has an apostrophe in merits, 15 which is going to be unnecessary. And then also D because it also has 16 an apostrophe in merits. 17 And so now we just have to decide, should paintings have an apostrophe, 18 and where should it go? Right. And we should know that these paintings, 19 uh, own the merits, right? The merits belongs to the paintings. 20 And so that shows us possession. And if the paintings 21 have possession of something, they have possession of the merits, 22 then we need to put an apostrophe on the paintings, 23 right? And so that's why a is incorrect. 24 They has no apostrophe. And so with that, 25 we can arrive at sea, but I'm going to go ahead and show you 26 as well tha...