Answer Choices
NO CHANGE
also new practices,
in addition to practices,
practices,
Explanation for Question 12 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7
Number 12 says new theories, 2 new practices too, and technologies are transforming the 21st century workplace 3 at lightning speed. So from looking at our underlying portion 4 and our answer choices, we have new practices to also new practices in 5 addition to practices, and then just practices options, 6 a, B and C all have something in common. 7 A says to B says also, 8 and C says, in addition, those all mean the same thing. 9 Whenever you have answer choices that have different ways of saying 10 the exact same thing, that's your hint that it's going to be a redundancy 11 question. These are pretty common. We want to avoid redundancy. 12 You want to avoid words that imply something 13 that we already know, for instance, 14 do we even need to include any of these words to also, 15 or in addition, the question or the sentence 16 is already giving us a list of things, right? 17 It's already saying one new theories, 18 two new practices and three new technologies. 19 We already know it's a list of things. So we don't need to also 20 say two also. Or in addition, 21 it's already established that we have a bunch of things, 22 no need to add it to, or also, 23 or addition. So a, 24 B and C are all going to be wrong because of what we just 25 because of what we just established. But you can also identify 26 that you don't need this word new, 27 because it's already stated here. We can assume that new applies 28 to theories. New applies to practices and new applies to technologies. 29 So that is why D only has the word practices in it is the 30 shortest answer. It's one word, 31 but it's pretty often that on the sat, 32 the shortest answer is actually the correct one. 33 So D is your correct answer for this one?