[Video] Q17: No change or legal and lawful use of or legal acquisition through borrowing or valid means, or acceptable method, in other words, to borrow

Explanation for Question 17 From the Writing Section on the 2020 October Sat

So question 17 is the question where we want to think about how can 2 I say what I'm trying to say in the most straightforward, 3 a way as possible, right? Using as few words as possible. 4 And if I look at these answer choices, I can see they're all kind 5 of saying the same thing, right? We're talking about legal, 6 legal, lawful valid means acceptable. 7 They all have the same general idea, but I want to choose the one 8 that's going to be straight to the point without repeating any information. 9 And so the major goal here is to make sure no information gets repeated. 10 Now, if we read our sentence, we can see it says, 11 so he believes his sampling qualifies as fair, 12 use a legally permissive permissible borrowing of copyrighted material material. 13 So here we see legally permissible, which is a phrase that doesn't get repeated 14 anywhere else. 15 And then borrowing, right? So legal and borrowing, 16 nothing seems to be repeated. So AA might be good as it is, 17 but we should go ahead and check our other answer choices too. 18 And so B says a legal and a lawful use. 19 Now this is repetitive, right? Because anything that's illegal, 20 we know it's lawful, so B as wrong because of too much repetition. 21 Now see says legal acquisition through borrowing. 22 Now there's no repetition here, but if we're comparing a and C, 23 we see legally permissible borrowing of, 24 or legal acquisition through borrowing. 25 And so there's no need to use this word through the word thr...