Answer Choices
NO CHANGE
spawned
has spawned
spawning
Explanation for Question 7 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7
Number seven. This sentence says all these inventions spawns new 2 industries. And with those industries jobs, 3 you'll notice that the underlined portion, 4 as well as the other answer choices, they're all just different forms of the 5 same verb, right? Spawn. 6 We have spawns, spawned has bond and spawning. 7 The only difference is the verb tense. 8 When did it happen past, present or future? 9 So in order to figure out what verb tense to use in this sentence, 10 we have to look at the other sentences in the paragraph. 11 We want to make our verb tense consistent with the rest of the context. 12 So let's do that. Let's scroll up a little bit. 13 Our paragraph starts here and it says in 19 58, 19 58 14 was a while ago. It's in the past. 15 So that's our clue that we're probably going to be seeing a lot of 16 pastimes in this paragraph. Let's keep reading. 17 It says I'm going to paraphrase a little bit to the program's first year. 18 Very few people believed that his past tense that it was even possible yep. 19 Was for a man spacecraft to do all this stuff. 20 But by making prog projects, 21 such as these NASA has challenged, 22 right? Ed that's in the past it's scientists and engineers to do things that 23 were previously thought. Yep. That's in the past. 24 Impossible. All along these projects have increased 25 ed in the past. So it's like, 26 we're telling a little story here, right? Everything we've read, 27 it's just giving us history. It's telling us what happened alre...