Answer Choices
The result was an explosion, the Chicano mural movement, of mural painting that spread throughout California and the southwestern United States in the 1970s.
The result was the Chicano mural movement, an explosion of mural painting that spread throughout California and the southwestern United States in the 1970s.
The explosion of mural painting that spread throughout California and the southwestern United States in the 1970s was the resulting Chicano mural movement.
An explosion of mural painting resulted and it spread throughout California and the southwestern United States in the 1970s
it was the Chicano mural movement.
Explanation for Question 8 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4
Now looking at number eight, we need to see which of the choices effectively 2 combines the underlying sentences. 3 So let's read the sentences, right? It says the result was an explosion of 4 mural, painting the spreadsheet through California and the Southern Southwestern 5 United States in the 1970s, 6 it was the Chicano mural movement, 7 right? So you can see, there's not a whole ton of, you know, repetition 8 in these two sentences. Um, 9 you know, they don't say Chicano mural movement. 10 They don't say, uh, you know, 11 the date twice, perhaps the only area of repetition is where it says mural 12 painting and then mural movement. So maybe it's possible to combine those. 13 So we only say mural once. Um, 14 but that, that is something to keep in mind here is that when you're 15 combining sentences, you want to limit the amount of repetition that 16 is in those sentences. It's let's go ahead. 17 Let's look at our answer choices. I'm looking at a, 18 we see it says the result was an explosion, 19 the Chicano mural movement of mural painting. 20 So I want to stop you right here on a, um, 21 it's that we have an explosion of mural painting, 22 right? That's one phrase together, 23 explosion of mural painting, and here we've broken it up by inserting a 24 weird positive phrase that seems to be talking about just an explosion. 25 So that breaking up of this phrase and explosion of mural painting makes a 26 very awkward, so you don't want to choose a now looking at 27 B, it say...