[Video] Q26: A) no change or b) foremost or c) big-name or d) primo

Explanation for Question 26 From the Writing Section on the 2018 April Sat

Hey guys. So question 26 is going to be dealing with overall the tone 2 of the passage and what word fits best in there in regards to our 3 overall authors, um, formality. 4 Now it seems to be, this is a pretty, you know, 5 formal, uh, historical work. It's talking with this guy Johnson describing his work on 6 the dictionary, and it's using more formal language like, 7 um, furnished, um, 8 and to provide two, to provide examples, 9 language like that. It's not very casual. So when it comes to the word 10 here, John's looked into those. He considered the hot shot experts on the English 11 language. Um, the leading English writers of the past and present hot shot feels 12 a little out of place. It doesn't seem to be with the formality of 13 the rest of the sentence. And when we look at our other options, 14 a lot of these seem to have that similar casual tone, 15 hot shot, the big name, 16 a hot shot, um, 17 big name and Primo are all kind of like casual 18 language. 19 Like man, that was like the Primo steak man, 20 or know he's, he's kind of like the big name guy or the hot 21 shot guy. Those are language people would use in casual conversation, 22 not in formal writing. Whereas foremost that stands out here as the only formal 23 option here. And especially with only one option is different and other three options 24 the same, well only one answer can meet, 25 right? So three things are the same and none of those can be right 26 on a standardized test like this. So clearly foremost fits in with the overall 27 tone. The author seems to be going for.