[Video] Q12: Which choice most effectively combines the sentences at the underlined portion?

Explanation for Question 12 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8

So question number 12 wants is to most effectively combine the sentences and the 2 underlying portion. So let's look at these senses. 3 It says the crowd has gathered to celebrate the unit lunar new year. 4 The street is a sea of red. Red is the traditional color of luck 5 and happiness, right? So our overlap here is going to be red. 6 That's what we want to make our combining word here. 7 Now, if we look at what's being done in a, we see that we've 8 only used one red and we've now put a comma and this is going 9 to work, right? Because when I put that comma there, 10 I'm making this phrase, what we call an a positive or 11 a phrase it's not necessary, um, 12 to the sentence, but is rather added on. 13 And so this makes sense, right? Because it's red comma, 14 the traditional color of luck. So that phrases describing the red and we're allowed 15 to put a comma there. 16 So a works grammatically. Now B has the same information, 17 right? But it's still repetitive. We say red twice. 18 We also add in addition, so we're saying a lot of words that don't 19 actually add any meaning to the sentence, 20 which is not something we want to do. We want to be as concise 21 as possible. See, 22 does the same thing, right? We say read twice. And then we add some 23 words that, again, don't add any meaning to the sentence. 24 So C is wrong for the same reason that B is wrong. 25 And then D says red, the color that is, 26 um, again, we say red, we say the color. 27 So we're using a bunch of words that don't add, 28 meaning we're repeating things, right? 29 Because we know Red's a color. We don't need to write that down. 30 And so D is also repetitive. It's a little too wordy. 31 So for those reasons, a is going to be our best answer.