[Video] Q2: Which choice best maintains the style and tone of the passage?

Explanation for Question 2 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8

So question two is asking us which word or words best fit the style 2 and the tone of the passage that we're looking at. And if we look 3 at the sense that we're talking about, it says it also enhances the soil 4 texture, encouraging healthy roots and minimizing or annihilating the need for chemical 5 fertilizers. And so where this word annihilating is, 6 we could see that what they really want to say is remove, 7 they want to minimize or completely get rid of the need for chemical fertilizers. 8 Now, if we look at the word annihilating, 9 we can see that this has an aggressive tone, 10 right? It's usually something that's used in like physical conflicts. 11 You annihilate something physically. Um, 12 and so this isn't necessarily a physical thing, 13 and it's also not super aggressive, right? 14 This passage isn't extremely aggressive. 15 It's rather calm. So a, 16 the connotation of annihilating is what makes annihilating not a good answer choice. 17 Now, if we look at ousting, ousting does mean get rid of, 18 but it means to get rid of a person by force, 19 right? So first off, we're looking at a person here when we say ousting, 20 but in the sentence, our focus is chemical fertilizers. 21 So Al's thinks that a good choice for that reason then also by force. 22 Again, there's not really an aggressive tone here in the passage. 23 So C is wrong for two reasons here. 24 And then finally, D D is also wrong for two reasons. 25 First off, we can think of this as a conversational...