Explanation for Question 40 From the Writing Section on the 2020 March Sat
So for question number 40, our best answer is going to be C and 2 the question's asking us, which choice provides the most effective explanation for the action 3 described in the sentence. Right? So we're looking at our action. 4 And then we say that it's to prove a commitment to the sculptures wellbeing. 5 So first let's determine what the action is, 6 right? We'll start by reading from here. 7 It says in support of their argument, they note that the sculptures that Elgin 8 did not re that the sculptures Elgin did not remove, 9 remove, have suffered from pollution and an effort to beautify Athens. 10 Right? So the Greek government is constructing a large state of the art museum, 11 and they're constructing this museum, um, 12 to house sculptures that are currently in Britain, 13 should they be returned? And then we're also seeing that the sculptures that Elgin 14 did not remove, have suffered from pollution. 15 And so what's happening here is the paragraph introduces that the sculptures they're 16 still there have suffered, right. They've kind of degraded a little bit. 17 And then afterwards, after we've seen that the Greek government is constructing a museum, 18 um, that will house all of these sculptures, 19 right? And so basically whatever we put here right. 20 Needs to be connected to the suffering and the only answer choice it's really 21 connected to preventing the suffering of the, 22 of the sculptures or preventing the degradation of the sculptures is answer choice 2...