[Video] Q33: No change or have helped or will have helped or would have helped

Explanation for Question 33 From the Writing Section on the 2020 March Sat

Not for question number 33. We can see that our best answer is B 2 and immediately looking at our answer choices. We see that the only difference between 3 them is the tense of the verb, right? 4 We have some that are in the present, some that are in the future 5 and some that are in the past. And so the way to determine what 6 verb tents we want to use is to look back in this paragraph and 7 this sentence and other sentences to see what verb tense the author was already 8 using. If we start from the beginning of the paragraph, 9 it says by joining Vista, Dyson is following in the footsteps of hundreds of 10 thousands of people over the 50 year history, 11 right? So at this point, we're talking about the people in history who 12 blank helped improve their communities. 13 So we're not talking about Dyson, helping to improve people's communities, 14 but we're talking about the hundreds of thousands of people over the program's 50 15 year history. 16 So we're talking about people of the past, 17 and if we're talking about the past, then that means we need to choose 18 one of our past tense answer choices. 19 That's either B or D because a is in the present. 20 And those people are from the past and see us in the future. 21 And again, those people are people of the past. 22 And so now for you're deciding between B and D what have implies 23 that what we're about to say did not actually happen, 24 right? So we can ask ourselves, did these thousands of people actually help improve ...