Explanation for Question 39 From the Writing Section on the 2019 October Sat
And number 39, we're asked to effectively underline the sentences here. 2 And the sentences say that, um, the work was published, 3 uh, that he had found published research. 4 He had found for free online that, 5 that research that he found for free included what he found in pub med 6 central. Right? So essentially we're being repetitive here by having two sentences because 7 it talks about published research. And then again, 8 it says for free, right? So that whole middle part that I've underlined in 9 blue is kind of repetitive. Now, 10 if we look at answer choice a B, it says published research, 11 um, once which is good, that's now repetitive. 12 And it also says free ones, right? So it's no longer repetitive here. 13 And the use of the, uh, of the dash is going to work here 14 because what follows the dash is an explanation of, 15 uh, what we found within that free online, 16 uh, what he found for free online. 17 So what follows here is an explanation, uh, 18 a more detailed explanation of what he found for free. 19 And so that's why it's proceeded by a dash. 20 Now what's wrong with answer choice a, 21 um, is that we kind of see some repetition right research that had been 22 published and that he had found for free online, 23 um, including for, um, 24 pub med central. And so we see that they said, 25 had been punished, uh, published and had been found, 26 whereas it's much more straightforward to say published research that was found, 27 right? So here, we've added som...