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SAT Writing and Language Drill 3.10 Conventions of Usage 11 Views


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What does "it will both" mean? This SAT Writing videos goes over that phrase. We're sure you can't wait to click play.


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Okay Shmoop furs to maura in this section All right

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And this one's about it will both What does that

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mean Sounds like a weird korean rock n roll band

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Maybe so let's Find where it is here right down

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there in the last part of this plant's section paragraph

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the advance research in dry cooling team six development of

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high performance record heat exchangers and cool storage system If

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successful it will significantly reduce water using thermo electric lines

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without sacrificing plan performance Increasing schooling costs a lot thinking

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about the correct answer Alright Well in this sense heat

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exchangers are one category of technology and cool storage systems

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are another because there are two categories a sentence needs

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the plural pronoun they write so that's what it's thinking

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they're refers to both always suggest two things so we

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know we can't use it which is a singular pronoun

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So it goes away Yes change without both the now

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that it is referring to becomes unclear since that pronoun

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could refer to any one thing mentioned in the first

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part of sentence those is a demonstrative pronoun which is

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helpful when expressing how far the speaker is from the

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noun it refers to since those right there and be

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suggests a big distance well doesn't really make sense here

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Those now nes are right there in the same sentence

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So the answer is b there they will Both they

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will both like as in If successful they will both 00:01:23.354 --> [endTime] significantly reduce water usage Blab blab blab

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