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"Them". Yep. It's just that one word that we're focused on here in this SAT Writing video.
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- 00:03
All right S writing shmoop er's Here we go then
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that's it it's just that one word that we're focused
- 00:10
on here and let's Go find it Hear them An
- 00:13
increased focus on sustainable and environmentally conscious development will also
- 00:18
increase demand for them all rights That's clearly referring to
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- 00:22
paragraph before here So what's referring to yeah population increase
- 00:25
and environmental concerns dr employment growth for planners in city
- 00:28
suburbs and other areas This sense follows paragraph about the
- 00:31
need for urban planners in the years to come Right
- 00:33
Well we can therefore infer that the unclear pronoun them
- 00:37
is referring to planners who will be needed to help
- 00:40
with environmentally conscious development Like in theory we care about
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this The pronoun them is unclear because it could refer
- 00:47
to either planners or sustainable and environmentally conscious development Which
- 00:51
is it If it did in fact refer to development
- 00:54
well it would be the wrong pronoun because development singular
- 00:57
and then them is plural right The singular pronoun It
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would still be incorrect though because the increased demand is
- 01:04
for planners not development Development can't increase demand for itself
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Even if it dreams it could Oh that snooty development
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All right so we're moving on love in the whole 00:01:13.868 --> [endTime] career thing for urban planners somehow
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