Explanation for Question 1 From the Writing Section on the 2017 May Sat
Now we're going to go over a section two, which is the English language 2 section of the May, 2017 SAC. 3 Let's start with number one, we'll be going through the questions, 4 reading the part of the passage that we need to read in order to 5 answer the question. Um, just like in the real test, 6 you don't need to eat a whole passage before for the writing section. 7 So question one, the underlying part is one having, 8 and let's read the sentence that contains that part. 9 It says under the antiques act of 1906, 10 there Ganek act of 1916 and other federal laws. 11 The us government has the power to take custody of land when having 12 historical significance or great natural beauty. 13 So we wrote us about, 14 can kind of tell about one having doesn't sound right, 15 but what we want to make sure when we're reading or going through the 16 questions for this section is that we can't rely on what sounds right. 17 That Satie is gonna throw a little questions or little snippets in there that 18 sound right, but are actually wrong or backwards that sound wrong, 19 but are right. So we have to, um, 20 determine our answer based on, 21 in this answer for this question. 22 Um, tense. So do we have the rights right. 23 Tense of having, or has, 24 um, like in the other answer choices and, 25 um, standard English convention convention, 26 which in this case is going to take the form of having the right 27 preposition before the verb. 28 So here in our underlying section, 29 we have one,...