[Video] Q9: No change or sturdy or influential or commanding as a result, organic material that is sent to landfills

Explanation for Question 9 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8

So the question I have is a word choice question, and we can see 2 here that we're talking about the release of methane, a very blank greenhouse gas. 3 So if we know what the word potent means, we know that it means 4 strong or powerful. And so 5 this sounds really good, right? Because if we're releasing methane, 6 right, it's probably a very strong greenhouse gas. 7 And so potent is going to be a good option here, 8 but we can always look at the rest of our options as well. 9 Now, if we look at sturdy, sturdy refers to something being strong physically, 10 right? Like a, like a building or something. 11 Um, and if greenhouse, 12 you know, if we're talking about greenhouse gas that we're talking about something that's 13 not physically large, um, 14 or talking about something it's not really physical at all. 15 It's right. It's Adam sized. Um, 16 and so sturdy, isn't going to be the best option because we're talking about 17 something very physical. 18 Whereas here we're just talking about strength is a greenhouse gas right now. 19 Influential also means strong, but we're usually referring to people when we talk about 20 something being influential or having the power to influence things. 21 So C is usually used to describe people and not necessarily gases. 22 And now D we have commanding, if we chose commanding, 23 that would imply that the greenhouse gas is actually commanding something or it's actually 24 giving orders. And we know that methane can't give orders, 25 right? Because it's just the gas. So D is no good. 26 And our best, answer's going to be a, which means strong and powerful without 27 having any human connotation or any physical connotation.