[Video] Q27: To improve the cohesion and flow of this paragraph, the writer wants to add the following sentence. data gathering proved to be the quick part of the project. the sentence would most logically be placed after

Explanation for Question 27 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Not for question number 27. We're trying to place the sentence here, 2 which talks about data gathering and also a project. 3 And an important thing to note is that in this sentence alone, 4 we don't know what the project is. So wherever we place the sentence here 5 in the paragraph, it should either describe the project or explicitly name it. 6 Right. And so, so if we look at sentence two here, 7 oops, let me erase this. If we look up at sentence two, 8 we see that we've talked about a dictionary and we've talked about the last 9 version of the dictionary that came out, but there's no talk of a project 10 yet. So that's why sentence two is too early because a reader still 11 wouldn't know what the project was. 12 If we were to just say project at that point, 13 and I'll be looking at sentence three and four, right? 14 You see that sentence three up here is possibly describing a project, 15 right. Conducting interviews. So that's probably our project. 16 And so you might think, okay, now we see what the project is. 17 Let's go ahead and put our sentence right here after three. 18 However, the issue with that is that three and four are really closely connected. 19 So it's important to note that four starts by saying their goal was to 20 determine, and that there is referring to graduate students. 21 But if I put our sentence in its place, 22 readers might wonder who is there, 23 right? Because there's no people in the sentence here. 24 So the word there would first become conf...