[Video] Q21: No change or lion snares the envelope with its teeth. or envelope is snared by the lion with its teeth. or teeth of the lion snare the envelope.

Explanation for Question 21 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8

So in question 21, all of our answer choices have the same information, 2 but the question is how do we order our words? 3 So the first thing we can think about is whether we're using active or 4 passive voice, right? As on an active voice, 5 that's where your subject comes before your verb and in passive 6 voice, that's where your verb comes before your subject. 7 And now on the sat and the act, 8 even you always want to use active voice. 9 You always want your subject to come before the verb. 10 And so if we look at 21, we see that the lion's teeth snare 11 the envelope. So we can ask ourselves what is doing the snaring it's the 12 lion's teeth. And that comes before our verb, 13 right? Here's our subject, here's our verb. So a is active voice. 14 So let's not eliminate it immediately. Now B says that the lion, 15 our subject snares the envelope with its teeth, 16 right? 17 So our subject comes before our verb. This is active. 18 Now C says that the envelope is snared by the lion with its teeth. 19 So here's our verbs snared. But at this point, 20 our subject is now after the verb, right? 21 Cause the lion comes after the verb. 22 This is passive and we don't want passive. 23 Right? We have verb, subject, verb, subject, 24 and passive as a no-go. Now D says the teeth of the lion snare, 25 the envelope. So here's our subject, the teeth of the lion. 26 Here's our verb snare subject verb. 27 This is active. So we've now eliminated C and our question is what is 28 really doing ...