Answer Choices
A) NO CHANGE
B) It is unknown precisely how much work Johnson’s scribes did beyond copying down passages.
Johnson was not the first writer to create a dictionary of the English language.
Next, Johnson undertook the more difficult task of composing definitions.
Explanation for Question 28 From the Writing Section on the 2018 April Sat
Hey guys. So question 28 says which choice best introduces the topic of this 2 paragraph. Now let's read through this paragraph in whole and try and figure out 3 what is overall about now. If you're actually taking the sat, 4 when you're reading for this paragraph should answer the other questions at the same 5 time. So you just answer 29 and then come back to 28. 6 When you finish the passenger's whole, save yourself some time for this one. 7 Obviously we're just going to read through it ourselves and try and figure it 8 out. So let's ignore the first sentence for now. And it says no earlier 9 English licks, lexicographer, Lexic, 10 lexicographer. I think so, 11 or dictionary writer had attempted to define words as precisely as Johnson did. 12 Okay. Johnson's defining words. Very precisely. 13 However, Johnson's careful analysis of his sources are subtle, 14 but inexhaustible changes in the way words were used by different writers at different 15 times. 16 So writers were used using words in different ways by definition, 17 at different times when the dictionary was published in 1755, 18 Johnson's preface acknowledged the inherent mutability of language, 19 noting that no Alexa lexicographer shall imagine that as dictionary shall embalm his 20 language and secure it from corruption and K. 21 So he's saying he's learning a lot about definitions as he's doing this, 22 and he's really taking a lot of care into using, 23 um, good, uh, like, 24 like he's using, uh, defining words...