[Video] Q30: No change or less or having heard less or those of less

Explanation for Question 30 From the Writing Section on the 2018 May Sat

Question number 30 is asking us about how to construct 2 the sentence as clearly and concisely as possible. 3 The sentence now reads this capacity helps people hear human voices more 4 clearly than hearing less important sounds. 5 So here it's not necessarily clear. 6 Um, what lasts is applying to, 7 are we talking about less important sounds or are we talking about hearing less? 8 So for that reason, we do want to reconstruct the sentence somewhat. 9 We're going to eliminate the no change option to make that use of the 10 word that lasts a little bit more clear, make it more clear what Les 11 is actually applying to, um, 12 what we can do here. Let's go through our answer. Choices, 13 answer choice. B says this capacity helps people hear human voices more clearly 14 than less important. It sounds this makes it very clear that what we're talking 15 about with last is the level of importance of the sounds, 16 um, rather than the extent to which we're hearing them. 17 So answer choice B works very nicely. 18 Choice C um, this capacity helps people hear human voices more clearly 19 then having heard less important sounds having heard is, 20 um, not the right form of the verb here. We just want to stick 21 with hearing, um, that part of the sentence was not the problem. 22 So we don't need to modify that answer. 23 Choice day says those of less. 24 So that would read this capacity, 25 helps people hear human voices more clearly than those of less important sounds. 26 Those of is a little bit confusing here. 27 We're not sure what those of is really referring to so we can eliminate 28 D as well, B as the simplest. 29 Um, and it makes it clear what the meaning of the sentences. 30 People hear human voices more clearly than sounds that aren't as 31 important as human voices. So choice B is our crack dancer for number 30.