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alright shmoopers, were on the fifth one here

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of eleven and we're just gonna kind of

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figure out where we're heading...[man talking fast]

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so basically the sentence should go from

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manufacturing and recycling processes

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for advanced composites to specifically

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they will focus on lowering the overall

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manufacturing cost of advanced

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composites blah blah blah today so

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they're clearly focusing on some topic

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earlier upstream they're somewhere in

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this earlier part of the paragraph let's

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think about how we kind of edit this [people editing docs on computer]

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dock so who is they good question

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it's a trick question in a way because

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there is no they in this paragraph

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anyway it's just one big monolithic

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Institute because that Institute is

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singular it means a singular pronoun

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singular like it not they this see right

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there is also a singular pronoun it's

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actually its own type of pronoun called

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the demonstrative pronoun because it [pronoun list appears]

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demonstrates something but it makes the

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sentence ambiguous because the word

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could refer to all sorts of things in

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the previous sentence it's tempting to

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use they a right there because they're

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obviously people at this Institute that

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is if the robots haven't taken over yet [robots working in manufacturing factory]

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but the essay has treated the Institute

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as a singular act or so far we can't

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assume that only Americans are working

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at the Institute just because it's in

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the u.s. Americans makes it sounds like

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all Americans are focused on lowering

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the cost of making advanced composites

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which we're not quite doing so the

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answer is B it that's it and that [it highlighted in sentence]

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really is it

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