curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-greetings-in-your-first-day-at-the-office/6568c68b92a63810a57cffaf.md
Instead of saying California is different from Texas, Tom says: It's different from Texas. He uses It's as a contraction of It is. In this context, It refers to California.
When talking about places or things, especially when comparing or describing them, it's serves as a subject and verb starter for the sentence.
In the sentence It's different from Texas, what does It's refer to?
Texas
It's isn't referring to Texas but is rather being compared to it.
The weather
While the weather might be a factor, the dialogue does not specify this.
The food
There's no mention of food in the dialogue.
California
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