[Video] Q28: The writer is considering deleting the underlined sentence. should the sentence be kept or deleted?

Answer Choices

  • Kept, because it provides a detail that supports the main topic of the paragraph.

  • Kept, because it sets up the main topic of the paragraph that follows.

  • Deleted, because it blurs the paragraph’s main focus with a loosely related detail.

  • Deleted, because it repeats information that has been provided in an earlier paragraph.

Explanation for Question 28 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 1

Now question number 28 is asking if we should keep the underlined or delete 2 or delete the sentence and why. 3 And so in order to answer this question correctly, 4 we need to meet to read more than just the sentence when you need 5 to read above and get a sense of what the paragraph is talking about. 6 Right? So the paragraph tells us about an article that's published in Forbes magazine, 7 explaining that coworking spaces are designed to location or designated locations that 8 for a fee individuals can use to conduct work. 9 Um, they usually have office equipment or they can host presentations. 10 And then number two or sentence 28 says the cost of launching new coworking 11 business in the United States is estimated 58,000. 12 And so this sense is telling us about the cost of starting a business. 13 But if we look back in this paragraph, there's no mention of the business. 14 Rather, we're just getting a brief general overview of what a coworking space 15 is. So the sentence appears to be slightly off topic. 16 And so that's the type of answer choice that we want to choose. 17 Something that talks about being off topic. Now, 18 Amy says it provides details that support the main idea, 19 kind of like I just said, it doesn't support the main idea because the 20 main idea here would be that coworking spaces are locations that you can rent 21 to conduct work. And that doesn't tell us about the cost of launching a 22 business, right? So since that sense is off topic, 23 it doesn...

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