[Video] Q44: No change or one’s or his or her or their

Explanation for Question 44 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 1

So question number 24 is a question about pronouns. 2 And if we look at our sentence, it says because, 3 um, today's students can expect to hold multiple jobs. 4 Some of which may not even exist yet during our lifetime studying philosophy allows 5 them to be flexible and adaptable. And the question is whether or not we 6 should use the word hour. And now if we were to look back through 7 the rest of the passage, which hopefully you've been kind of reading, 8 you know, as you've gone through the questions before this point, 9 you'll see that we don't use any first person pronouns. 10 Right? We don't use, I, we don't use, 11 we, we don't use our, so the rule of thumb is if you didn't 12 use it earlier, you don't want to start. Now, 13 since we haven't seen any of these earlier hour is going to be no 14 good. We want to be consistent with the rest of rest of the passage. 15 Additionally, if you look at back through the passage, 16 you're not going to see anything referred to as one, 17 right? They're not using this impersonal one in any sentences. 18 And since we didn't use it earlier, we don't want to start now, 19 right? So the reason we can eliminate these two is simply because they're not 20 used anywhere else in the passage. So it's not a good idea to start 21 using them at the very end of the passage. And now we have to 22 decide between his or her and there. And these might sound almost the same 23 right now, the difference between his and her. 24 And there is that his in...