[Video] Q9: No change or still, or rather, or next,

Explanation for Question 9 From the Writing Section on the 2020 March Sat

So in number nine, our best answer choice is going to be a, 2 and we can see by glancing at our answer choices that this is really 3 a transition word question. And the best way to do this question is going 4 to be, to look at the sentence before the transition, 5 those hens after and see how they compare to each other. 6 So our first sentence will be here in orange and our second sentence will 7 be here in yellow, right? 8 So the orange sentence says that the prosperity of Exodus or settlements depended on 9 the yields of their farms, right? 10 So at first we depended on the yields. 11 We're talking about the prosperity. And then afterwards we say harvest and Nicodemus grew, 12 which allowed the residents to purchase lumber for their houses and attracted other people. 13 Right? And so we can see that at first, 14 we're talking about the prosperity and what it depended on. 15 And then we actually talk about how nicotine was prospered. 16 It prospered by growing, which allowed people to build houses and that eventually more 17 people came. Right? And so this isn't something that happened immediately, 18 right? The nicotine is that it immediately prosper and something that happened over time, 19 which is why our best answer is in fact, a eventually. 20 Now we can also go about by go about this question by eliminating the 21 other answer choices for answer choice B still. 22 That's kind of like saying, even though, right? 23 So it shows a contrast between the two sentences and t...