Explanation for Question 4 From the Writing Section on the 2019 October Sat
Now a number four were asked, which of the following choices provides the most 2 relevant information to introduce the paragraph. 3 And our correct answer is going to be a right, 4 no change. And if we look at answer choice, 5 a, it says the two artists prepared to display new works. 6 Side-by-side at the Royal academy exhibition. 7 So really what we're talking about here are two artists who are displaying new 8 works at an exhibition. 9 And so if the question is asking us, which of the following effectively introduces 10 the paragraph, then we also need to know what kind of information we see 11 throughout that paragraph. Right? And if we scan over, 12 we see that we talk about constable's particular work, 13 right? And we talk about another work by Turner, 14 and then it talks about further down an exhibitions opening, 15 right? So we see the use of the word exhibition, 16 which is also right here. 17 Um, and then again, we see these two artists names come up. 18 And so overall, we can see that throughout this, 19 this paragraph, the main topic is an exhibition in which these two artists showed 20 some pieces of work, right? So a appears to be consistent. 21 Now, if we look at B, why we could eliminate answer choice B, 22 we see that it says more than a hundred works were being shown, 23 right? And the main focus of this paragraph was not hundreds and hundreds 24 of works, but rather the works of two particular artists who show up throughout 25 the passage, right? So B is n...