[Video] Q17: No change or however, or in addition, or likewise,

Explanation for Question 17 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

So number 17 is another transition word question. 2 And so we need to look at our sentence before the transition and our 3 sentence after the transition and see how they connect 4 to each other. Now, the sentence in orange basically tells us that organic food 5 does not mean that it's better food or that it's more nutritional, 6 right? And this is a specifically, 7 according to scientific research. 8 Now in the purple sentence, we're told about a review, 9 right? So that's like a type of scientific article, 10 um, in this particular scientific journal that tells us about 11 lifespan, um, or threaten that lifespan. 12 But over the span of 50 years, how crops that are organic are not 13 more nutritious. And so these two sentences around the same page, 14 they both believe that organic foods and crops are not necessarily better 15 for you nutritionally. And so B we can eliminate because if they're on the 16 same page, it wouldn't make sense to use. 17 However, because however indicates a conflict or a disagreement between your 18 sentences. And if we look closely here, 19 we can see that, okay, this sentence very generally tells us about scientific research. 20 And then this purple sentence tells us very specifically about one particular 21 example of the research. So essentially our orange sentence is 22 general and our green, 23 green or purple sentence is specific a specific example. 24 And it should be noted that for instance is kind of the same thing 25 as saying, for examp...