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Question type: Grammar

Question type: Grammar

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Question type: Grammar

- [Voiceover] In this video I will go over a grammar question and explain a few of the grammatical concepts you should note. Do well on these questions. Here's an example of a passage with a question testing your knowledge of pronoun and subject verb agreement. If you would to look at this whole passage, just use the URL that you see on the screen. The question that I'm dealing with here is the highlighted one, number 2. Let's just read the sentence this underlined part is in first. "When any one of these changes occur, it is likely the result of careful analysis conducted by the transportation planners." Okay, so let's work backwards this time from the right answer, which is choice D. Choice D says "occurs" and it also has "it is". How do we know this is right? Well the pronoun "it" is agreeing with the noun or subject "one." "When any one of these changes occurs," so the correct verb should be "occurs" and it has to agree with the subject "one." So one occurs and it is singular just…

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