Explanation for Question 1 From the Writing Section on the 2019 April Sat
Now for number one, we're asked, which helps establish the tone and style 2 of the passage. Right? 3 And so what they really want you to do is be consistent with the 4 already there stone and tile of S or tone and style of 5 the passage. Um, and in order to do that, 6 you kind of have to scan or read the passage. 7 So one strategy for this, this question is to skip, 8 do all the other questions and come back in the end, 9 when you've already read the entire passage, we can also scan it as well. 10 Right? So you don't really get any information there 11 as we scan. We see, you know, things are kind of formal the way 12 they say ongoing campaign for civil rights inspired 13 the audience. Things are pretty formal so far. 14 Yeah. I'd say, you know, the best way to describe this at the moment, 15 just from a quick scan, be formal. 16 If we look at a, a says way more people, 17 and so way more is kind of an informal saying something you would say 18 in conversation, but you wouldn't want to write in an essay. 19 So a is not fit our formal description. 20 And we can eliminate a, now B says an unusually large crowd. 21 That seems good. I don't immediately see anything wrong with it. 22 Unusually large is, is not very informal. 23 Um, but see a whole bunch, 24 a whole bunch is kind of like way more. It's very informal conversational saying. 25 And then D the issue with D is not that it's too informal, 26 but that it's kind of repetitive, enormous crowd of unpaired 27 paralleled nature. When you say enormous, 28 we know that it's probably unparalleled, probably very large, 29 so D's repetitive. And that leaves us with our correct answer of B.