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

Explanation for Question 20 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8

So question 20, the sentence reads as the parade winds, 2 its way through Chinatown, the music crescendos and the lions, 3 the lion dance reaches its climax with the plucking of the greens. 4 Right? So we're talking about the lions dance reaching its climax. 5 And the question is first, do we use it or there? 6 And then also do we use the apostrophe, 7 the possessive, what do we use? What version do we use? 8 Right. And so first let's start with the it or the there, 9 if we use, see if we use there, 10 that's pointing to a location right there. 11 This is a location. There are, we're not saying over there, 12 the climax, right? We're saying that the climax it's the climax of 13 the Alliance dance. It belongs to the lions dance, 14 right? So there T H ER, 15 isn't going to work now, 16 this is possessive, right? The lions dance reaches their climax. 17 And so this could work, right? Because the climax belongs to the lions dance. 18 However, lion dance is singular and there is coral. 19 So since there is plural, it's not going to work because we need to 20 use a singular, singular word. 21 And so that's why it, or it's just going to work because it is 22 singular. And now our question is, 23 is it it apostrophe S or is it it S now 24 when you see it, apostrophe, yes. I want you to think it is whenever 25 you see this apostrophe, what we're really saying is it is, 26 and what you can do is plug that phrase into the census to see 27 if it makes sense. So if we say it is, 28 it wo...