Answer Choices
NO CHANGE
in
off of
DELETE the underlined portion
Explanation for Question 36 From the Writing Section on the 2019 May Sat
In question number 36, we are selecting the appropriate word choice for this context. 2 The sentence reads one of the first costume exhibits to benefit from these technological 3 developments was the 2014 Charles James. 4 So the phrase we're looking at here is benefit from, 5 um, benefit from, is already sort of sensible when you read it to yourself 6 in your head, that does sound like something you might've heard before benefit from, 7 um, answer choice B in benefit in is not something that we 8 would really say neither is benefit off of. 9 Um, benefit off of is maybe something you might say in conversation, 10 but it's a little bit less formal benefit from is the more formal version 11 that we're going to use in writing. Um, 12 and then choice D deleting the underlined portion benefit, 13 these technological development. That would mean the exhibit was benefiting the developments 14 rather than the developments benefiting the exhibit. 15 So that sort of switches up our meaning if we chose choice D so 16 we are going to go ahead and select answer choice. 17 I, um, benefit from that's really the answer choice that makes the most sense 18 and is the right level of formality for this writing.