Answer Choices
NO CHANGE
for example,
however,
in fact,
Explanation for Question 23 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7
23 says young on the goat eaters were thrilled specifically 2 those who prized regional foods and Italy's convivial culture built on cooking 3 and long meals feared that the restaurant signaled the death of a way of 4 life. All right. So it's kind of a long sentence, 5 but what we're dealing with here is this transition part right here. 6 Notice that that specifically as well as our answer choices are all different transition 7 words. We use transitions to connect two ideas. 8 Each transition word offers a different type of connection between those two ideas. 9 So to identify which transition is correct here, 10 we have to figure out what ideas are we trying to connect? 11 How do they relate? So we're going to read before the transition and after 12 the transition. So first before the transition we have young 13 on the go eaters were thrilled. That's very straight forward. 14 These young eaters were thrilled. 15 They're happy having fun. Now let's read what it says after the transition. 16 It says those who prized regional foods and Italy's convivial culture, 17 but on cooking and log meals feared that the restaurant signaled the death 18 of a way of life. So it looks like we have a pretty big 19 contrast between these two sentences. 20 First, they're saying that they're thrilled. 21 And then they're saying that they're fearing, 22 they have fears. So again, 23 those are very different. So let's see if we can find any sort of 24 transition that emphasizes contrast. 25 So for ...