Answer Choices
NO CHANGE
other sculptors had previously used it,
it was used by them before,
they used it previously to begin other sculptures,
Explanation for Question 27 From the Writing Section on the 2017 April Sat
Question number 27. Let's look at the original context of the question 2 here. Even worse. They had previously used it, 3 chipping away material to rough out a basic shape, 4 but giving up mid task. So what's going on here is we see the 5 use of this pronoun. They, 6 um, we want to make sure anytime we're using a pronoun that it's clear 7 exactly who we're talking about. Um, 8 previous to this sentence, we see a discussion about this block. 9 Um, I'd been chord more than 40 years earlier, 10 so there's no personal subject here. 11 There's there's no clear they in the sentences that precede 12 this one. So what that means is rather than using a pronoun, 13 what we want to do is actually insert the subject into the sentence to 14 make it clear to the reader who we're actually talking about. 15 So in this case, we're talking about other sculptors. 16 Um, so that's going to be answer choice B. 17 This provides us with some additional clarity on the subject who we're referring to 18 here without using any pronouns like they, 19 or it. So be as our correct answer.