Explanation for Question 14 From the Writing Section on the 2020 March Sat
Not for number 13, we're asked if we should consider including the underlying this 2 sentence into the underlying portion, which is as however cutting edge techniques to analyze 3 skeletal specimens, comma, and were asked if we should make that revision. 4 And now our best answer is going to be yes, because it introduces information 5 that is later developed in the passage, right? 6 Because if we look later on in the passage, um, 7 we talk about Juju, 8 a team of paleontologists, then employ a 3d scanner to, 9 uh, complete the Dodo bird specimens, right? 10 So we're reconstructing the specimens, we're modeling them using bone images 11 and that's, what's being described in the sentence, 12 right? Cutting edge techniques, those cutting edge techniques are the same ones that I've 13 highlighted here in blue. I'm using the 3d scanner, 14 right. And reconstructing the skeletal structure of the Dodo bird. 15 And so if we look at our answer choices, the other answer choices, 16 we can also eliminate them. 17 Right. It says it gives more detail that reinforces the description in the previous 18 sentence. Now, in the previous sentence, 19 we talk about what the Dodo bird looks like. 20 Whereas in the sentence here, we don't talk about how the Dodo bird looks 21 like at all. We talk about technology. So B doesn't make any sense because 22 it's not connected to the previous sentence. 23 Um, so you said it's added it as an idea. 24 That's not related to the passages main discussion, 25 ...