[Video] Q40: No change or however, or alternately, or in other words,

Explanation for Question 40 From the Writing Section on the 2020 October Sat

So question number 40 is a transition word question, 2 and we can see that by looking at our answer choices here. 3 And so the best way to go after a transition where a question is 4 going to be to look at the first sentence and then look at the 5 second sentence and compare them and see how they relate to one another. 6 And then once you know how they relate to one another, you can figure 7 out what transition is going to be the best to connect them. 8 So our first sentence is highlighted at blue and it says the sample initially 9 stored in the dark container had produced almost no sugars made with Traci traceable, 10 carbon 14, indicating that the algae hadn't been tabla metabolize 11 the carbon 14. So here are the sample hasn't really done anything, 12 right? So not successful. It makes no sugars. 13 It hasn't metabolized the carbon 14. 14 And then our next sentence, we say the algae had not been able to 15 photosynthesize so we can ask ourselves, 16 what does it mean by metabolize and make sugars and photosynthesize? 17 These are actually all the same thing, right? Because in photosynthesis, 18 the main goal is to produce sugars for the plant. 19 And so when it says it hadn't made sugars, it say the same thing 20 as it didn't photosynthesize, except it's using different words. 21 Right? And so it's not finally, 22 this isn't a series of events. We didn't do one thing. 23 First, one thing second, and then finally it didn't photosynthesize. 24 These were both saying the sam...