[Video] Q26: No change or there or its or it’s

Explanation for Question 26 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3

Now looking at question number 26, it says that while MCP keeps apples from 2 and crisper for months, it also limits blank sent production. 3 Right? So we see you. We could either say they're sent production there it's 4 or it's. And so our first step with these types of questions, 5 choosing between a, you know, kind of like a they word versus an N 6 word is to figure out if we are singular, 7 in which case we would use the it words or if we're plural. 8 Right. And so what are we talking about? 9 What is, um, the scent who does the scent belong to? 10 The answer is the apples, right? 11 And apples is plural. We have more than one apple at hand here, 12 so we could eliminate C and D right off the bat because we need 13 something that's plural. And so now we need to decide between the word there 14 and there right now, T H E I R is the possessive 15 version of there. And T H E E T H E R E kind 16 of is talking about a location, right? You would say, 17 I live over there referring to a specific location. 18 And so in this case, we're talking about the scent, 19 right. That belongs to the apples. 20 So if something belongs to the apples, we're talking about possession, 21 right? We weren't talking about location of the scent, 22 so we wouldn't choose B. We would choose a, 23 because we have a plural possessive subject being apples.