[Video] Q32: No change or adequately and affordably can feed the world? or can adequately and affordably feed the world. or adequately and affordably can feed the world.

Explanation for Question 32 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

32 says, critics have also asked if growing food, 2 using traditional methods, as opposed to mass production can adequately and affordably 3 feed the world. Okay. So in our answers races, 4 we have some that have question marks, some that have periods and some have 5 words, rearrange. Those are the only differences between the answers. 6 So first I want to determine whether this is a question or not, 7 because questions have question marks, statements have periods. 8 So let's take a look at our sentence. It says, 9 critics have also asked if growing food using traditional methods can 10 adequately and affordably feed the world. So we see this word asked and 11 you normally ask questions, right? 12 Asked is a question word, but it does not make 13 this sentence in question. It's still just a statement. 14 It's a statement saying that someone asked a question, 15 right? Because if I were to say, he asked me a question, 16 even though I have that word asked in there, it's just a statement. 17 It's just a statement that he asked me a question. 18 However, if I were to say he asked 19 and then I put a quote and I put the question that he asked, 20 then it would make sense to have, it would make sense to have a 21 question mark there, because you have an actual question. 22 And as you know, questions, usually start with question words like who, 23 what, where, when, why, or how, and we don't even see that here. 24 So this is for sure a statement, not a question. 25 So I'm going to ...