🦩 Too many "it"s 🦩

This is another common mistake, but it's a bit more subtle and a lot more dangerous. First, all the "it"s and "its"s must clearly refer to specific nouns, and, second, they must all have the same use in one sentence. Otherwise, a sentence can be confusing.

📝 To wit, this is a sentence from a student's essay:

"On the other hand, reading news online has its own merits too. First, it is its accessibility - it takes less than a minute to open your device, click the icon and receive information."

This is too many "it"s overall, and the first two in the second sentence are downright confusing.

📝 My rewrite:

"On the other hand, reading news online has merits too. One is accessibility -- getting the news this way takes very little time as all the person has to do is click an icon on their device."

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