Answer Choices
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as their cushiony material ensures that items are shipped,
which are commonly used because their cushiony material ensures that items,
as their cushiony material guarantees and ensures that items,
Explanation for Question 1 From the Writing Section on the 2019 March Sat
Moving on to section number two with the writing section of the March, 2019 2 sat exam. Let's take a look at our first passage, 3 starting with question number one. This question is asking us to figure 4 out how, if at all, we need to modify the underlined portion of the 5 sentence. So the sentence now reads packing peanuts are a standard 6 part of shipments as their cushion aid material ensures that items such as glassware 7 are not damaged in transit. So first let's evaluate whether there's anything 8 wrong that we need to fix about this sentence. 9 We can see that this is a complete sentence. 10 All of the verbs are in the appropriate tense and the commas are used 11 appropriately. They set aside that detail about, 12 um, the glassware items come, 13 uh, such as Classware comma that's done correctly. 14 So there's nothing that needs to get modified about this sentence. 15 When we look at our other answer choices, each of these choices features something 16 in the sentence that's a bit redundant or it's stated twice or more times 17 than it needs to be. 18 The sat likes us to be as brief and as concise as possible when 19 writing the sentences. So looking at answer choice B, 20 we see that it reads as their cushioning material ensures that items that 21 are shipped. So items that are shipped is redundant because we already have 22 the sense that since we're talking about shipping and the process of 23 packaging up these shipments, we already understand that these are items ...