[Video] Q12: No change or the purchase of or purchasing or delete the underlined portion.

Explanation for Question 12 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Now for number 12, let's look at our sentence. 2 It says some people buy organic food because they believe organically growing crops are 3 more nutritious and safer for consumption than the people who purchased 4 their conventional grown counterparts. 5 And so this extra part here, this which are usually produced with pesticides and 6 fertilizers, that's a dependent clause. It's just an addition to the sentence. 7 So I'm going to delete it to get it out of the way. So 8 it doesn't confuse me. And now looking at the sentence is really 9 long sentence. And first thing I noticed is that it's telling me that organically 10 grown crops are more nutritious than people, 11 and that shouldn't make any sense, right? Because they're not comparing crops to people 12 and no world should that happen. Right? So a, 13 it makes no sense. We want to be comparing crops to crops right now, 14 if we look at me, it tells us that they're more nutritious than the 15 purchase. So now we're comparing crops to a purchase and that still doesn't 16 make sense. We want to compare crops to crops. 17 Uh, see actually does the same thing as B you're once again, 18 comparing a crop to a purchase, 19 and we don't want to do that. We want to be consistent, but if 20 we go ahead and we delete this part here, it tells us that organically 21 grown crops are more nutritious than they're grown count 22 conventionally grown counterparts, right? 23 In these conventionally grown counterparts, our crops. 24 So when we delete this part of the sentence, we're left with the comparison 25 of organic crops to conventional crops, 26 and that's what we want. So our best answer then is the.