Explanation for Question 9 From the Writing Section on the 2019 April Sat
Now in number nine, it asks us which choice most effectively combines the underlying 2 senses. And when you see these questions, 3 some things I want you to keep in mind are first off punctuation, 4 right? We always just want to verify that the punctuation works and is actually 5 grammatically correct. We also don't want to be repetitive. 6 So no repetitiveness. Then the final thing is 7 keep in mind the original context, 8 the original meaning of the sentence, 9 because sometimes in these, in these types of questions, 10 they'll reorder the words. So even though it's not repetitive, 11 the words are in a slightly different order, which changes the meaning from the 12 original. So you always want to compare to the original to make sure meaning 13 is not lost in translation. And as it says, 14 or as it's written, it says Dr. 15 King spoke about unity that day. He also inspired unity. 16 So we see immediately a little bit of repetitiveness. 17 We say Dr. King, um, 18 twice really, by saying, he, you also say unity twice, 19 which is pretty repetitive. So the goal here is probably to, 20 to pare that down so that we're not saying the same thing multiple times, 21 right in AA says Dr. King spoke about unity by inspiring it that day. 22 So we don't say unity twice, but he spoke about it by 23 inspiring it. That doesn't make much sense. 24 Right? How do you speak about something by inspiring it inspiring 25 is not a process of speaking. So this whole by inspiring phrases, 26 a litt...