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Lesson 2: Text Structure and PurposeText Structure and Purpose — Quick example
A quick example of an SAT Text Structure and Purpose question. Created by David Rheinstrom.
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- Great video as always David!(35 votes)
- you've got this ✨mini-moon✨(35 votes)
- Hi! Could anyone explain why answer choice C is wrong? Why can't it be referring to the real moon when it says that it was misclassified? I see how answer A is right; I just don't know why C is neccesarily wrong(17 votes)
- Choice C is not wrong. The real moon is misclassified as the "Earth's only natural satellite". The question however is to find the statement which best describes the underlined portion of the text. Choice A seems to describe the underlined portion of the test more clearly than Choice C.
It should also be noted that Choice C says that the underlined statement emphasizes an exception to an earlier generalization while Choice A says that the underlined statement adds a modifying detail to the earlier assertion. In the text "Any astronomy book will tell you that the moon is Earth's only natural satellite, but it is more accurate to say that t̲h̲e̲_M̲o̲o̲n̲_i̲s̲_E̲a̲r̲t̲h̲'̲s̲_o̲n̲l̲y̲_n̲a̲t̲u̲r̲a̲l̲_s̲a̲t̲e̲l̲l̲i̲t̲e̲", the underlined part seems more like a modifying detail to an assertion than a statement that emphasizes an exception.(11 votes)
- nice tricky options(21 votes)
- I just love this guy, his voice calms me down(15 votes)
- Why is B incorrect? I cant understand the explanation in the vid(3 votes)
- consensus is when everyone agrees on something, it just wasn't in the text.(13 votes)
- Can someone please tell me what is a caveat(1 vote)
- A caveat is a like a warning about the limitations or conditions of something. Hope this helps!(11 votes)
- as a Brazilian this is the hardest type of question on the sat, at least for me!! wish me good studies(4 votes)
- Okay, for this question, I have a problem. I am one hundred percent sure that the answer should have been C. The video says that mini moons are not misclassified, that is why it is wrong. But the actual moon is misclassified, therefore answer C should be correct. What am I missing?(1 vote)
- This answer choice in my opinion extended beyond the text. What the text was trying to say is that there have been EXCEPTIONS orbiting the Earth as natural satellites and the existence of the 2006 asteroid proved that. It isn't saying that this object has been misclassified, and there aren't any studies in the text showing an orbiting object being misclassified as a non-orbiting object. The answer choice was not talking about the moon, it was talking about the asteroid ("the object discussed in the text"). Therefore, you understood the question right, but you misinterpreted the meaning of the answer. The asteroid is not misclassified and that was not mentioned, so eliminate. Hope I helped!(6 votes)