[Video] Q4: Ellicott of whom or ellicott, from whom his or ellicott, while ellicott's or ellicott, whose

Explanation for Question 4 From the Writing Section on the 2018 April Sat

Hey guys. So question four says which choice most effectively combines the sentences at 2 the underlined portion. So what are you going to do with questions like these 3 as often, you're going to cut out unnecessary wording. 4 What does this telling us? These two sentences that Banneker befriended George Ellicott and 5 the Ellicott knowledge about science and astronomy impressed Banneker. 6 So with this underlined portion right here, 7 we need to cut out unnecessary repetition. We definitely don't need to repeat Ellicott 8 name twice. So right away we can say, 9 okay, we don't need to do see. We want you to say he met 10 Ellicott while Ellicott is knowledge, blah, 11 blah, blah. We already know he's talking about Ellicott. So he doesn't need to 12 say that twice. The next AA says Ellicott of whom, 13 um, mannequin friend, Ellicott of whom knowledge about science and astronomy 14 and Preston. Now this one, this answer choice is just confusing because it doesn't 15 really say, wait, who like, um, 16 whose knowledge is impressing, who here, this is not effectively combining them because it's 17 making the language ambiguous. Now we're team B and D B 18 says Ellicott from whom his knowledge about science and astronomy impressed him. 19 Whereas these says, um, referring to Ellicott whose knowledge about science and 20 astronomy impressed him. And what both of these are saying the same thing D 21 is doing it more effectively. It's using less wording and it's making it clearer 22 and more straightforward as to what we're trying to say. 23 So oftentimes the answer twists like these we to cut out on necessary fluff. 24 And frankly, a lot of times the shorter answer is going to end up 25 being.