[Video] Q6: No change or which achieves or which will have achieved or having achieved

Explanation for Question 6 From the Writing Section on the 2019 April Sat

Now number six right here, 2 we're saying Jamaica, which would have achieved independence from great Britain less than three 3 years earlier was in the process of forming a government. 4 All right. So we're looking at six 5 and we're kind of trying to figure out verb tense here is what I 6 can gather from the answer choices. Cause here we see it would have an, 7 a B says, which achieves C says, 8 which will have achieved and D says having achieved. 9 So the first thing I want to figure out is I want to read 10 the sense, a little more closely to decide what's happening. 11 Did they gain dependence and independence in the past? 12 Will it happen in the future? What does the rest of the sentence tells 13 me, tell me. And it says that they did this three years earlier, 14 right? So it actually happened. It happened, 15 it's not questioned questionable whether or not it did happen or if it will 16 happen. 17 And it certainly happened in the past. 18 Um, so the easiest thing here to see is that this is a past 19 tense verb, whatever we need, because if something happened three years earlier, 20 it happened in the past. Um, 21 and B that's in the present tense. 22 So we can eliminate B C is in the future tense 23 because the will, which will have achievable. 24 Yeah. The Lomax makes that future so we can eliminate C. 25 And so now we kind of have to choose between would have achieved. 26 Cause that would is in the past tense and having achieved. 27 And the difference here is the, u...