[Video] Q18: No change or are no good anymore. or become obsolete. or have lost their charm.

Explanation for Question 18 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

For 18, the whole sentence says for would thinking employers 2 recognize the importance of investing in the employees. 3 They have rather than hiring new staff. 4 When the skills of current workers get old and worn out, 5 and this underlying portion, along with the answer choices, 6 they're all different ways of saying the same thing. 7 It's not necessarily re repetition or redundancy in this case. 8 It's more, more so determining which way of saying this is 9 most appropriate for the passage. 10 So this one is going to be very focused on tone this entire 11 passage. It's very formal. 12 It's analyzing these arguments, talking about different research. 13 It's very much not casual. 14 It's informative, concise and formal. 15 So now that we know that let's look at all of our answers, 16 races, any says, 17 get old and worn out. And again, 18 we're talking about the skills of current workers. 19 I wouldn't really describe skills of current workers getting old and 20 worn out. 21 Sure. You could talk about workers getting old and worn out, 22 but even then calling workers old and worn out is not what we 23 want to do. And in this passage, that tone is not correct. 24 Very informal. And on top of that, 25 the main subject here, what this, 26 what this underlined phrase is trying to describe is the skills we 27 can ignore this of current workers because it's a propositional phrase and it's not 28 part of our, it's not what's being modified here. 29 What's being modified is skills....