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Explanation for Question 37 From the Writing Section on the 2019 October Sat

For number 37, our best answer's going to be B. 2 So let's take a closer look at the sentence. It says, 3 recognizing the importance of access to biomedical research for patients, 4 doctors, and others, the NIH has requirement. 5 Is that any papers resulting from NIH funding be deposited into an open 6 window, right? And so here, 7 what we have, um, is we're starting the sentence with the NIH requirement 8 is that, whereas it would be better to use active voice, 9 right? As we have it here, it's passive voice, 10 right? Because it's saying what the requirement is. 11 It's not saying who is doing the requiring. 12 So since we know it's the NIH, that's doing the requiring, 13 it's better to start the sentence with the NIH rather than the requirement. 14 Now C also starts with the requirement. Um, 15 do you use a little bit different, but we can eliminate a and C 16 because they're not as strongly written in the active voice, 17 right. 18 They say is the requirement, 19 is this rather than saying NIH requires, 20 right? And so if we compare B and D, we see that B says 21 the NIH requires that any papers resulting from funding, 22 whereas D says, any papers resulting from funding are required by the 23 NIH to blank. 24 Um, and so what we noticed here is that the order is different, 25 right? And B it starts off by saying that the NIH requires, 26 whereas the ends by saying the papers are required, 27 right? And so what's actually happening here is that B is a stronger, 28 active ...