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SAT Writing and Language Drill 7.1 Sentence Structure
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What do austronauts and Michael Jackson have in common? Watch this video on sentence structure to find out!

SAT Writing and Language Drill 7.2 Effective Language Use
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Learn about effective language use from austronauts that like hoarding moon rocks in this SAT writing drill!

SAT Writing & Language: Sentence Transitions at the Beginning of an Essay
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What's the whole essay about? How does time control or matter to the essay as a whole?

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Its...or is it it's? 19 Views


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Its...or is it it's? Watch this SAT drill to help unravel that age old question.


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All right people next up on the hit parade of

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this sign articles were perusing here It's ok you go

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and get control committee they use for expensive getting less

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and less cars lower The cost of the materials wouldn't

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get us for bothering to product essential in our community

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Kind of going like people Then what about okay so

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clearly enable its use So what is it referring to

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there We're going to have to go back and do

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a little looks and well according to this sentence advanced

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composites could be used in all sorts of ways if

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they weren't so incredibly expensive The subject is these materials

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So the pronoun in question it's needs to refer to

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advanced composites which is plural and be possessive will The

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only choice that fits the bill here is they're not

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it's It is a single thing like it The movie

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See it it's really scary There would be like if

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there were more than one It like the sequel if

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it has babies so yeah so we can get rid

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of all the rest and the answer is b there

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