[Video] Q26: No change or scholars, and these scholars or scholars, but scholars or scholars, who

Answer Choices

  • NO CHANGE

  • scholars, and these scholars

  • scholars, but scholars

  • scholars, who

Explanation for Question 26 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Now we're looking at question number 26. 2 Um, the sentence that says the weight did not dampen enthusiasm among the 3 among scholars, scholars consider the work of an achievement in 4 the work, hold on scholars consider the work of signal and achievement in linguistics. 5 Right? And so we're, we're looking at 26 here. 6 All right. And so if we're looking at a right, 7 let's take it one answer choice at a time, we look at a, 8 we see that we have a period in that period. 9 You know, it shouldn't be too off-putting because the green part right. 10 Says the weight did not dampen enthusiasm. That's an independent clause, 11 a complete sentence. And then the falling part says, 12 scholars consider the work of signal achievement in linguistics. 13 Also a complete sentence. So there's no issue putting a comp a period there. 14 It's not the period that makes a wrong what I want you to kind 15 of cringe at when you look at 26, a is the repetition of the 16 word scholars right next to each other. 17 If there's something that's the AC or the act and the sat for that 18 matter, hate it's repetition. And so this use of the word scholars back to 19 back makes a too repetitive of an answer choice. 20 However, if we were going by process of elimination here, 21 you might keep it in the running until the end, 22 because chromatically, it works with the period. 23 But the repetition is what makes this not the best answer. 24 And now, if we look here at answer choice, 25 B says scholars and th...

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