Answer Choices
NO CHANGE
years-considerably
years, this is considerably
years
considerably
Explanation for Question 40 From the Writing Section on the 2019 April Sat
All right, looking at the sentence and question number 2 40. Um, the sentence right now says saving 3 considerably more than the $7,000 she paid for the drone in any potential 4 cost associated with reviewing images. 5 This is an incomplete sentence. So we're going to want to try to merge 6 it with the future. 7 Um, the sentence proceeding this about future dollar savings. 8 So we're trying to combine these sentences. We're going to eliminate the no change 9 option since it makes sense to combine them. 10 Given that that second statement is the sentence fragment. 11 It's not a complete sentence. I can stand on its own. 12 Our answer choices B connects them using a dash. 13 This is good for emphasis. Um, and it's grammatically correct as well. 14 She estimates that identifying problems faster with timely crop data and using last weed 15 killer will save her tens of thousands of dollars in future years considerably more 16 than the 7,000. 17 She paid for the drone and any potential costs associated with reviewing images. 18 So that's the easiest way to combine our sentences and it's rhetorically effective as 19 well. So we're going to go ahead and choose answer choice B for number 20 40. The issue with answer choice C is that we're trying to combine independent 21 clauses with a comma. Um, 22 the previous sentence is a standalone sentence. 23 It is independent, um, when we use this as considerably, 24 um, and that second part of the sentence that makes it independent as well. 2...