[Video] Q40: No change or commissioned or forced or licensed

Explanation for Question 40 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3

Now number 40 is a word choice question. 2 And if we read our sentence, it says these cats are so cherished by 3 the museum that officials recently blinked original paintings to be made of them. 4 Right? So we're asking for paintings to be made now to decree, 5 usually refers to laws, right? 6 You're passing a decree. You're, you know, you're stating something legal and painting still 7 have much to do with the law here. Right? So a is no good. 8 Now, if we look at D licensed, right? 9 Licensed doesn't mean I'm asking for something to be made, 10 right? Essentially what we're doing here is we're asking and we're paying someone to 11 create paintings of the cats. And if you licensed someone that doesn't mean they're 12 going to be creating something, especially a work of art. 13 Usually we think about, um, you know, businesses being licensed, 14 meaning they were allowed to operate, but that doesn't have much to do with 15 paintings right now, C is forced, 16 which is a little bit of an aggressive word, right? 17 It shows that there was some ingression and creating these paintings. 18 And that's not the case that we see here. 19 We don't see any kind of, you know, painting by force happening. 20 And so commissioned is going to be our best word. 21 If you're familiar with talking about art, then you, 22 then you might know that, um, commissioned is the word that we use. 23 When we talk about asking someone to make a painting. 24 But in, in general here, we're asking someone to ...