Explanation for Question 8 From the Writing Section on the 2017 May Sat
Question eight asks us to combine the sentences in a, 2 um, effective way at the underlying portion. 3 So the sentence are Yellowstone had more than 3 million tourists. 4 And then the second sentence is they spend a total of nearly 380 million in 5 and around the park. So let's look at our answer choices, 6 a says the tourists. 7 So it says tourists, the ones who spent. 8 So in the actual sentence, it would say, 9 yeah, those don't have more than 3 million tourists. 10 The ones who spent a total of nearly 380 million in and around the park. 11 So this doesn't make sense because we don't need to say the ones when 12 we just had tourists, because we're talking about the 3 million tourists. 13 You don't have to repeat the ones right there. It's extra extra words for 14 no reason. Then B has a semi-colon and it reads 15 skills don't have more than 3 million tourists semi-colon spent spent 16 was a total of nearly 380 million in and around the park. 17 That first part of the second sentence spent was a total of nearly it 18 doesn't make sense. You can say that you can just 19 leave it as they spent a total of nearly 380 million around the park, 20 but the way that, um, B has the second sentence, 21 um, doesn't poly grammatical, um, 22 isn't grammatical or grammatically correct. 23 Then see tourists who spent so Yellowstone had more than 3 million tourists 24 comma who spent a total of nearly 300 million in and around the park. 25 This sounds correct. We're going to mark it, but we...