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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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