[Video] Q4: No change or because they are or being or delete the underlined portion

Answer Choices

  • NO CHANGE

  • because they are

  • being

  • DELETE the underlined portion

Explanation for Question 4 From the Writing Section on the 2017 April Sat

Question number four is drawing our attention to this is 2 phrased here and they're less likely to be physically misplaced. 3 So we're being asked to figure out exactly what to do here. 4 Let's take a look at needs of our answer choices in turn, 5 answer choice. A the no change option is first. 6 So let's see if there's anything currently wrong with the way we're writing this 7 sentence. Um, notice here that we kind of have a parallel structure 8 of several example of back-to-back-to-back. 9 What we want to do is make sure that they kind of follow the 10 same form. Um, if they're inconsistent or, 11 um, take on different forms throughout the different examples that can often be really 12 confusing for the reader. So we see with the first example, 13 they don't require they don't need, 14 and here they are less likely. 15 So these all kind of follow the same format, 16 they, and then, um, 17 uh, a present tense verb. 18 So there's no currently existing problems with the way the sentence 19 is written. That's a good sign that we're going to select the no change 20 option. Let's take a look at our other answer choices though, 21 choice B says, and because they are, 22 um, if we put this into the sentence, 23 it would say, and because they are less likely to be physically manipulated, 24 this would suggest that, um, we have kind of another, 25 another phrase that would follow because they are less likely to be physically misplaced. 26 Many doctors have started adopting this syste...

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