[Video] Q16: No change or carry on or maintain or sustain

Explanation for Question 16 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Looking at number 16, this is a word choice question. 2 So what we really want to do here is look at context clues within 3 our sentence to help us make our choice. 4 Um, so our sentence says, although advocates for organic food blink that organic food 5 is healthier, right? So advocates for organic food would maybe think 6 that organic food is healthier, um, 7 or think that it has more vitamins, 8 vitamins, or minerals. So maybe, you know, something around the lines of think or 9 believe could be a good one. 10 Uh, this assertion is not supported by scientific, 11 uh, evidence, right? So basically, or assert, 12 right? Because if it's an assertion, 13 then they are asserting it. And so we want to pick something, 14 you know, similar to these words. And now the word preserve as it is 15 in a preserve, doesn't usually refer to something that people are thinking, 16 right. 17 It refers to perhaps a food that needs to be saved or, 18 you know, a culture that you're trying to preserve, 19 make sure that, you know, the cultural traditions are kept alive, 20 but we don't usually talk about preserve in terms of what people are thinking 21 in their heads right now, 22 if we look at B carry on, carry on to something very physical, 23 right, to pick something, to carry it, 24 um, bring it on, for example, like a carry on, 25 on a plane. And these are thoughts, 26 right? Not physical now see says maintain. 27 So this should be a possible answer choice, right? Because to maintain somethi...