[Video] Q18: To improve the cohesion and flow of this paragraph, the writer wants to add the following sentence. his songs are composed entirely of samples, excerpts taken from one song for use in another. the sentence would most logically be placed

Explanation for Question 18 From the Writing Section on the 2020 October Sat

So question number 18 is asking us if we wanted to add the sentence, 2 where should we put it? If we read that sentence, 3 it says his songs are composed entirely of samples, 4 excerpts taken from one song to use in another. 5 So we can see here, we're talking about someone's songs, 6 but we don't know who. So we want to place the sentence after we've 7 introduced the person who is making these songs and then samples, 8 right? So we want to be talking about taking pieces of other people's music 9 as well. So let's start with where it is here after sentence one. 10 Now, if we look at after sentence one, 11 it says Greg gills, AKA girl talk has been involved in debates about the 12 legality of remix for more than a decade. 13 So here we've got a person and we're talking about remix, 14 right? So a could be a good answer because it does say who his, 15 is. 16 It also just talk about taking samples and putting them together. 17 So AI seems valid, right? So we can look at it after, 18 since two. Now using only laptop Gillis, 19 collect samples from other songs, ranging from rock ballads, 20 cuts them at different lengths that dah, dah, dah, dah, 21 and arranging them into different form. And so if we look at B versus 22 what we have here, his songs are composed entirely of samples. 23 There's no need to say that after we've already said how he collects the 24 samples, it would make sense to introduce the samples first and then talk about 25 how he actually gets the samples. So tha...

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