Explanation for Question 4 From the Writing Section on the 2020 March Sat
Now question number four says that at this point, 2 the writer is considering adding this sentence, 3 which says between 1870 and 1879, 4 approximately 10,000 people, um, 5 exit esters entered Kansas. And we're trying to see, 6 should we add it? Should we not? Right. So we're going to put this 7 answer choice or this answer choice. We're going to put this sentence right here. 8 Right? So the sentence that would come before would say one settlement in that 9 state is Nicodemus a talent, 10 Northwestern, Kansas with 300 hundred settlers. 11 Then afterwards it talks about real estate agents mentioned Nicodemus in brochures and newspapers, 12 but the reality was less appealing, 13 right? So we see the before and after we're talking about a single settlement 14 called Nicodemus, but in this particular sentence. 15 So we're thinking about adding, we're talking about Kansas in general. 16 And so that's why D is going to be the correct answer. 17 We know we don't want to add this quite this sentence because it's off 18 topic, right? We go from talking about Nicodemus to talking about Kansas as a 19 whole back to talking about that one specific settlement. 20 So we don't need to do that. We want to stay on par talking 21 about the same thing pretty much the entire time. 22 And we would want the transitions to be smoother, 23 right? So D is right because it's off topic and a good way to 24 describe something being off topic is it digresses from the discussion. 25 So it moves away from ...