[Video] Q4: No change or precedents or proceedings or procedures

Answer Choices

  • NO CHANGE

  • precedents

  • proceedings

  • procedures

Explanation for Question 4 From the Writing Section on the 2019 April Sat

Now number four, it's a word choice question, 2 right? Looking at our different word choices. And the question says the days blank, 3 not only inspired the audience, but also furthered Dr. 4 King's aim of enhancing solidarity between the two countries. 5 So the days something, 6 right. And so the fact that this is the longing to the day, 7 whatever we would put on the underline here tells us that the underlying has 8 to be a noun. 9 First off you wouldn't say the days, 10 um, or for example, you would say the days weather, 11 right. And weather is a noun because it's a, 12 it's a thing. Um, but the days proceeding proceeding 13 is a verb, right. To proceed. 14 Pre-seed I suppose pre-seed would mean to, 15 to come first. Right? And so the days proceeding doesn't work 16 with this apostrophe, you could say the day is proceeding, 17 but the day can't own a proceeding because you can't own a verb. 18 So anything that's a verb, essentially we can eliminate. 19 And that's going to be, um, a, 20 B, C, and D are good to go, though. Those are all nouns. 21 All right. So we'll just go through one by one and see which one 22 sounds good, right? The days precedence. 23 So precedence is a little bit of a legal term, 24 but it basically means what people have done before. 25 Right. It's kind of like an established pattern of what people have done before 26 and what you should probably do to follow what people have done before. 27 Right. And so a day doesn't have a precedent. 28 Usually you...

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