SAT Writing Practice 4 + Answer and Explanation
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1. C Diction
ReplyDeleteThis question asks you to choose the word that best fits
the semantic context of the sentence, that is, the word
that helps the sentence to convey a logical idea in the
context of the paragraph.
This previous sentence states that an important challenge
facing the healthcare industry is how to address this
shortfall without sacrificing quality of care. Among our
options, the only one that suggests a possible solution to
this problem is to incentivize more medical school graduates
to choose primary care.
Although it may seem that interest is a reasonable
choice, notice that its use would violate idiom in
this sentence: the correct idiom is not interest someone
to do something, but rather interest someone in doing
something.
2. C Logical Comparisons
This portion of the sentence is part of a parallel construction
in the form A instead of B. In such constructions, the
words or phrases in A and B must have the same grammatical
form and describe logically comparable (or contrastable)
things. Since in this case A is primary care (a
noun phrase indicating a medical specialty), the most
logical choice for B is the more lucrative specialties (a
noun phrase indicating medical specialties). The original
phrasing is incorrect because their choosing does not
indicate a medical specialty, (B) is incorrect because to
choose does not indicate a medical specialty, and choice
(D) is incorrect because it is redundant.