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Explanation for Question 41 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3

Now as we look at number 41, right? 2 We can see the, as it's written, we have an, a positive phrase, 3 um, which is right here, it's set off in two commas, 4 digital artists. And when you have in a positive phrase, 5 you should be able to remove it from the sentence and the sentence should 6 still make sense. Right? So now it says the person chosen for the staff 7 for this task, painted the cats and the tree and the style traditionally 8 used by portrait artists. And so this sentence doesn't make sense, 9 right? Because if I was going to say L Eldar Zarkov, 10 I would have wanted it often commas for the sentence, 11 sentence as it's written, because, you know, 12 you kind of want to pause before and after we say the name here. 13 So since there aren't commas there, that kind of shows us that the positive 14 phrase, an a is not going to work. 15 Now, B has three commas. 16 So what they've essentially done in B is they've taken a singular positive phrase 17 and split it up into two. And whenever they do that, 18 you don't want to choose the answer because it makes that sentence really tough 19 to read, right? We don't know if this is the positive phrase or if 20 the name is the positive phrase. And so there's simply too many comments in 21 B. Now, if we look at C right, 22 C is missing the original comma, 23 it just puts a comment at the end. And so the issue with this 24 one is that it doesn't actually have the positive phrase. 25 It all, because to having a positive phrase,...