[Video] Q40: No change or a skilled writer and speaker. or skilled both as writers and speakers. or both skilled writers and speakers.

Explanation for Question 40 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

So now for number 40, we're trying to figure out if we should be 2 talking about speakers. One speaker, 3 um, both. Should we say the word both? 4 Um, and so first thing we need to do is decide, 5 okay, speakers or speaker singular or 6 plural. And if we look at our sentence, 7 it tells us that anyone considering a career as a video 8 game designer must be blank. So anyone must be something and anyone 9 is a singular word, right? 10 You would say anyone is capable or anyone can do this. 11 Right? So we want to use singular versions of words. 12 And so that's why a is not going to work here because we're talking 13 about speakers, which is plural. And again, 14 we want something singular and that's actually, 15 what is wrong with C and D as well. 16 We see speakers. And so just by seeing that we're talking about anyone here, 17 we can find the only singular words in our answer choices, 18 which is an answer choice B with both a skilled writer and speaker.