Answer Choices
profits, which is what the newspaper industry tried to do when it portrayed
profits, by which the newspaper industry portrayed
profits and tried to do this by portraying
profits, by portraying
Explanation for Question 39 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7
39 asks, which choice most effectively combines the sentences at 2 the underlined portion. So whenever they ask you to combine 3 sentences, you want to look out for unnecessary, 4 repetition and unnecessary wordiness. 5 We want our answers to be concise and to the point and very clear. 6 So now let's take a look at what we're trying to combine. 7 It says at this time, Jefferson Pooley and Michael Socolow, 8 both professors of communication studies argue that the newspaper industry sought 9 to discredit the newly emerging technology of radio, 10 which was cutting into newspapers profits. The newspaper industry tried to do 11 this by portraying. The new medium is irresponsible. 12 So I already see a repeating phrase here. 13 It's a repeating subject and that's newspaper industry up 14 here. We have the newspaper industry that sought 15 to do something. And again, 16 down here, we have the newspaper industry who tried to do this 17 by portraying. 18 So when we have those repeating subjects with which means we can probably cut 19 that phrase out newspaper industry. Another thing I see here is this tried 20 to do this by portraying. That is very wordy. 21 And instead of saying that they tried to do this by portraying. 22 You could just say that they portrayed, 23 we don't need to say they tried to do it, 24 or they tried to portray. So those are two things that I already see 25 wrong with the original. So let's see if any of our answer choices 26 can fix that. Amy says profits, 27...