Answer Choices
NO CHANGE
than those of
than as that of
compared with
Explanation for Question 22 From the Writing Section on the 2019 May Sat
For question number 22, we kind of need to untangle this comparison and make 2 sure we're providing the appropriate pronouns to make this comparison as clear as possible. 3 So going into this question, it's really important to remember that whenever you're comparing, 4 you always want to compare like things. 5 Um, for example, in this context, 6 you'd want to compare a poet to a poet or a work to a 7 work, but it wouldn't make sense to compare a poet to 8 a work of poetry. They're not the same thing. 9 So we want to watch out for that when approaching this question, 10 the sentence right now reads, although many modern critics do not share Johnson's 11 hostility towards MacPherson Johnson was ultimately correct in thinking that poems 12 are such as any, he provides two examples are better understood as the work 13 of an 18th century poet, then as a third century one. 14 So let's make careful note of our subject here. 15 We're talking about poems. So this is a poem, 16 not a poet. So that's important when we make our comparison. 17 And also we want to note that this is a plural. 18 We're talking about multiple poems here. 19 That's also important to note, um, looking at our answer choices ISS, 20 then as a third century one, 21 um, this is an incorrect comparison because we're comparing the work of 22 an 18th century poet. So we're comparing the work, 23 um, and not the actual poet themselves. 24 So as a third century, one that would imply a third century poet because 25 we se...