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ACT English Difficulty: Foundational (27)

Digital ACT English Practice Question #1333

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Choose the best option for the underlined portion: When the autonomous rover encountered the rocky crater, it's robotic arm deployed a diamond-tipped drill to extract core samples.
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Substitute 'it is'. If 'it is' sounds ridiculous ('it is robotic arm'), eliminate 'it's' immediately!

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'Its' is the possessive pronoun indicating ownership by the rover. 'It's' is the contraction for 'it is' or 'it has', which would be nonsensical here ('when... it is robotic arm deployed'). 'Its'' is never a valid word in English....

Distractor Analysis: Trap choice eliminates careless test-takers who confuse roots with coordinates...

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