[Video] Q18: No change or response to the advertisement was overwhelming, or overwhelming, even tremendous, was the response to the advertisement, or there was an overwhelming, even tremendous, response to the advertisement,

Explanation for Question 18 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3

So now, if we look at number 18 and we read our sentence, 2 which says response to the advertisement was overwhelming, 3 even tremendous. The first thing I want you to keep in mind is that 4 the sat does not like repetition. 5 And so, oops, when we see overwhelming and tremendous, 6 we know those are kind of synonyms for each other, right? 7 So why do we need to say it twice? We should only be able 8 to say at once. And so that's why we can eliminate a as repetitive 9 and also why we can eliminate, um, 10 the right overwhelming, 11 even tremendous response. These also a little bit repetitive. 12 And in fact, C is a tad bit repetitive. 13 Additionally, what's wrong with answer choice C is that it's in passive voice and 14 you never want to choose an answer choice in passive voice on the sat. 15 The way that we know it's in passive voice is because our subject response 16 comes after the verb. 17 So we have verb than subject, and that's not the best way to write. 18 Um, for example, if we look at B this is an active voice and 19 we know that because our subject comes before our verb. 20 Um, so B is the best answer because it's not repetitive. 21 It only says overwhelming once. Um, 22 it's an active voice and also it is a independent clause. 23 The reason it needs to be an independent clause is because we have a 24 comma and here, and comment and are used to separate two ICS 25 or really two complete sentences. And B is in fact in the form of 26 a complete sense, which makes it our best answer.