Answer Choices
where it is now.
after sentence 2.
after sentence 3.
after sentence 4.
Explanation for Question 9 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7
Number nine sets to make this paragraph most logical sentence one 2 should be placed. Where, so whenever you have a question where 3 they're asking you to put a sentence somewhere in a paragraph, 4 the first thing you should do is identify that sentence of interest, 5 find sentence one, and then figure out what it's talking about. 6 What's the topic. Then once you have that, 7 then you should try it and all of these places and see where it 8 fits best. And usually your sentence of interest sentence one. 9 In this case, we'll have some indicator words that might either reference a previous 10 sentence or act as a point of reference for other sentences. 11 And that gives you a really good idea of where it stands. 12 So let's look at sentence one. It says a report by the space foundation, 13 estimated that NASA contributed $180 billion to the economy in 2005. 14 Okay. 15 So what's going on here? They're saying that NASA contributed 16 a lot of money to the economy, right? 17 All right. Now let's try these options. 18 If we keep it where it is now, there's nothing before, 19 because it's the first sentence. So after it, 20 it says more than 60% of the contribution came from commercial goods and services 21 created by companies using space related technology. 22 The reason this has came and not coming is from the previous sentence or 23 the previous question where we established already that it's cave and not coming. 24 It just makes it make a lot more sense. Okay. 25 So sentence ...