Explanation for Question 3 From the Writing Section on the 2017 May Sat
Question three, even though it's on this page, 2 the sentence starts in the previous page. 3 So we're going to start reading around here. 4 Federally protected lands are extremely popular comma with 270 million 5 visitors each year to national parks alone. 6 So here again, we have a propositional question we want to see which proposition 7 makes sense there. Um, 8 our other options are being to have, 9 and some this question, 10 unfortunately, is one of those that you can only rely on what sounds right. 11 There's no right or wrong reason as to why. 12 Um, we would have a certain preposition in this case. 13 It's just how we speak English. It's a standard English standard English convection. 14 Um, so the sentence let's read what the other answer choices 15 sentences with be being would be federally protected lands are extremely popular being 16 270 million visitors. That's not correct because the 270 million 17 visitors aren't, um, 18 the land being popular. 19 So it doesn't really make sense. Right? And then federally protected lands 20 are extremely popular comma to have 270 million visitors each 21 year to national parks alone. That doesn't make a complete sentence. 22 Or even if we finished it, it doesn't definitely doesn't sound right. 23 But, um, it just hasn't have the correct grammar if you had to 24 have 270 million visitors each year to national parks alone, 25 um, and you kept going there, you have an incomplete, 26 um, sentence and then D some federally 27 protec...