[Video] Q6: No change or than advise or then advise or then advice

Explanation for Question 6 From the Writing Section on the 2020 October Sat

So in question number six, we have to distinguish between using the word van 2 or then, or the words advise and advice. 3 So if we read our sentence, we can see that it says if an 4 instrument is not performing to a musician standards, 5 a technician needs to be able to diagnose the problem and then, 6 or then advise or advice the patient and perform repairs. 7 So what's happening here is that the first thing that they need to be 8 able to do is diagnose and after they diagnose, 9 they need to be able to perform repairs. 10 And so this is talking about chronological order, 11 what happens first and what happens second, if we're talking about chronological order, 12 we need to use the word. Then if we were making a comparison between 13 two things, like it's harder to diagnose than to perform repairs, 14 we would use then, but here, this is just talking about the order of 15 events. 16 So we can stick with them, which means we can eliminate answer choice a 17 and answer choice B. And now we need to decide between advise or advice 18 and advise is a verb, right? 19 To advise someone is an action. 20 Whereas advice is a noun, right? 21 And we're talking about what the musician technician does, 22 right? Diagnose here is a verb. 23 First they diagnose, they do the action of diagnosing. 24 And so it makes sense that the second thing they would do would also 25 be a verb. They're going to advise they're not going to advice, 26 right? Because we need it to be an action. So our best answer is 27 going to be C.