[Video] Q25: Which choice most effectively sets up the contrast in the sentence and is consistent with the information in the rest of the passage?

Explanation for Question 25 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Now we're onto number 25. And our sentence says while traditional human 2 intensive data collection has all but disappeared in language studies, 3 comma, the explosion of social media has opened up new avenues for investigation. 4 And so looking at the sentence immediately, 5 right, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to split it up at 6 this comma right here after studies. 7 And if we look at what's what's happening in the orange color, 8 it says while traditional human intensive data collection has all but disappeared in language 9 studies, that's a complete sense where human intensive data collection 10 is our subject and has, 11 is going to be our verb has slash disappeared. 12 And so we have an independent clause first, and then what we have after 13 is the explosion of social media has opened new avenues for investigation. 14 Also a complete sentence, but if we look at a it's got a comma, 15 right, and we can never just use, um, 16 a comma in between two independent clauses, 17 that's called a comma splice, and it's a huge grammar error. 18 You should also have a conjunction there if you're going to use a comma. 19 Um, right. And so this question also, 20 um, has, you know, an actual question that's asking us. 21 So we're probably going to be looking at more than just grammar here or 22 yes. More than just grammar. Um, and so it says, 23 we want to set up the contrast, um, 24 in the sentence and consistent with the information, 25 right? So we need to be setting up a co...