[Video] Q39: A) no change or b) an examination of or c) when they examined or d) examining

Answer Choices

  • A) NO CHANGE

  • An examination of

  • When they examined

  • Examining

Explanation for Question 39 From the Writing Section on the 2018 April Sat

Hey guys. So question 39 is trying to get us to figure out the 2 proper usage of examine in the sentence. 3 Let's just take a look at the overall structure of the paragraph and see 4 what tense we should be using for this let's read from starting here by 5 contrast many employees at retail stores and pay average or below average wages quit 6 each year, a phenomenon known as employee turnover, 7 forcing these businesses to rely on inexperienced workers and devote resources to finding, 8 hiring, and training new workers blank. 9 The same pair of club stores at Tom. Tom studied professor Wayne F. Castillo 10 at the university of Colorado found that this which cost the firm an estimated 11 this much money per full-time employee. He found that the turnover rate, 12 the higher paying clubs, or however it was lower finding this. 13 So what we need to do is figure out what are they trying to 14 say here? 15 Um, well, it seems to be that there's trying to say that, 16 uh, looking at this, looking at this here, 17 we can see this, and it seems to be speaking in the present tense 18 because it's saying, um, he is, 19 he, he is examining this. 20 Um, he has found this. So when he did this, 21 when professor Wade F Castillo, 22 um, examined this right here, 23 the same pair of club stores that Tom studied, 24 he found this. So when it says, 25 when they examined, um, 26 well, professor Wayne Casio is, 27 um, you know, uh, a man, 28 so we're not going to say they were gonna, um, and that's...

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