[Video] Q21: No change or its or there or they're

Answer Choices

  • NO CHANGE

  • its

  • there

  • they're

Explanation for Question 21 From the Writing Section on the 2020 October Sat

So question 21 is first the question of whether to use it or 2 there, and then how do we use it? 3 Do you see apostrophe or not? And so if we read the sentence, 4 it says, although it is important to protect artists by not allowing complete copies 5 of their work to be distributed without permission, 6 remix art is not a mere verbatim copy, 7 but a repurposing of materials that makes its audience think about how one piece 8 of art fits into a broader cultural landscape. 9 So we can ask ourselves, who does the audience belong to, 10 right? Is it his audience or its audience or their audience, 11 but you see that we're talking about remixing, right? 12 Remix art. It's the audience of remix art, 13 which is one thing not, they not multiple. 14 So since this is singular, not plural, 15 we know that we're going to have to use one of the it. 16 Right? And so, as it is with the apostrophe, 17 it, apostrophe S is, it is, 18 it's like the apostrophe signifies that there's actually two words happening, 19 whereas it's is the possessive version, 20 possessive version of it. 21 And so we could ask ourselves, does that makes it his audience? 22 Or is it its audience? Is it the audience of remix art? 23 And so we know that the audience is talking about possessive, 24 right, is the audience of the remix art. 25 It's not, it is audience. So our best answer is going to be B 26 because we want the possessive version of it.

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