Answer Choices
NO CHANGE
with results being
and results to
with results in
Explanation for Question 4 From the Writing Section on the 2019 May Sat
For question number four, we are just rewriting this underlined phrase, 2 um, answer choice ass. 3 The asteroid impact would have attracted a tremendous amount of Iridium containing 4 dust into the atmosphere, blocking sunlight and resulting in global cooling. 5 So we see these verbs are in parallel blocking sunlight and resulting 6 in global cooling. So we have those ING forms being used that makes it 7 a little bit more clear to the reader where we're going and just makes 8 the sentence flow smoother. Um, 9 so that answer looks really good. Let's look at the others. 10 And so choice based as with results being global cooling, 11 um, and while that's not incorrect, it is a little bit wordy and it 12 doesn't flow as smoothly as a, which uses the parallel forms of these 13 verbs blocking and resulting inter Tracy says and resulting 14 to, um, we wouldn't really say resulting to, 15 we might say resulting in, um, 16 but resulting to doesn't really make sense, 17 answer choice D says with results and again, 18 um, with results and it doesn't quite make sense. 19 We might say results in, 20 but including that width here kind of throws off the flow of that sentence. 21 So answer choice a is our best fit, 22 blocking sunlight and resulting in global cooling flows very smoothly because of that 23 parallel verb form. So we can select answer choice a for number 24 four.