Okay, everyone, let's talk about the writing language test. I'll give you a brief intro before we get into passage one same kind of general pattern with the reading confidence sense that I'm going to do two passages with you. And you get a feel for what they're going to ask. These two passages represent a general overview. So you're able to handle what is brought before you. There are going to be 44 total questions, we'll do 12 you get 35 minutes for those 44 questions.

Again, they say specifically, no calculator on your desk. What you would use a calculator for on this part, I don't know. But the exam. The keepers of the test are keyed on that they're hyper about it. So we'll follow their directives. So 44 questions 35 minutes.

The writing and language test is a mix of things right? So it's basically like the same thing as the AC t where you're the editor. And the nice thing about it is that they tell you where you need to edit. So you're going to have a passages from 400 to 450 words, so they're not overly long. And what you're going to do is find the sections that are underlined, and you're going to edit them, some of them need to be fixed, and some of them don't. So you'll see the passages there.

Within the passages, there are things that are obviously wrong. And there are others where the choice that says just leave it as it is, is actually you know, no change. As you can see on the left hand part of the screen, I have the questions there on the left, and I've got the passage on the right, you can see where no change might be an option. So you have these passages and you do want to go through them carefully because the measurement the test is looking at your ability to and I'm going to use their time terminology command of evidence. So the way that asks the command of evidence that's going to ask you to improve the way the passages are developed, the ideas in them the information that's there. Those the command of evidence, you need to see if it's done well.

Words and context, in effect are the words or the short phrases, the right ones, you have to make it better if it needs to, or leave it the same. That's, you know, style tone. These are things that you also need to check out. Sometimes the word is just wrong. Sometimes it's the wrong tone. And they'll cover that in words and context, expression of ideas.

Some of the questions asked about the main topic, its development, the way it's organized, or the use of language. And you're going to need to see if they're expressed correctly. And that's kind of a catch. All right, because the expression of ideas Well, you're the editor, so you're going to see if the ideas are expressed. in a way that's appropriate you basically, with something like that, you want to make sure it stays consistent. And that's how you're going to play this.

So here you have the famous and omnipresent Standard English conventions. So that's code for grammar. Everyone hates that sentence structure usage, punctuation, stuff like that. And they're going to test you on that. So commas and semi colons, you have dependent clauses, independent clauses, how do you punctuate those things? They're going to have that there too.

And your history, social science, social studies, hard science, there are going to be passages on those topics. And you may be need, you bet you may need to interpret those with a chart right they'll do a graph, and you're gonna have to figure out are the underlying sections sections that need to be improved or not. So let's get started on past One dawn Kingman. And you've got a passage there where you have long beginning talking about Don King and painter of cities, and it goes into his style of painting how he does it. And what you have to do to get the introduction is go through and carefully look at the passage. And so this is the kind of pattern that we're going to see looking right at question number one, as Kingman develop the paint developed as a painter, his works were awful compared to paintings by Chinese landscape artists dating back to see 960.

And so you need to see if the changes if you look up here, question one. Should you change paintings by Chinese landscape artists, or should you leave it the same? And let's get the writing tool going. And you'll see that for this one, the best choice is choice. A The first choice there's nothing to switch. It's the best one that fits.

We're compared to King we developed a paint as a as Kingman developed as a painter his works were compared to and the comparison needs to be from works to something else. It has to be a comparison to another thing. It can't be a painter, or an artist, or artists. So it has an effective and correct comparison. Notice the test oftentimes, and the AC t does this too. They'll have an incorrect comparison.

His works were awful compared to and they'll put a person here know his works are going to be compared to other works. So that's an old trick that they do the incorrect comparison. Let's continue. Chinese landscape work paintings by Chinese landscape artists dating back to see 960 at a time when a strong Traditional landscape painting emerged in Chinese Park. Alright, so here we have now, Kingman, however vacated from that tradition in a number of ways, most notably in that he chose to focus on natural landscapes such as mountains and rivers, but on cities. So this is one of those things where they want to see if you have the correct word.

The word that is after however, is the one up for grabs. So here you have vacated from that tradition, is that the best word? Is it and you can plug them in evacuated from that tradition departed from that tradition or retired from that tradition? Well, if you go over here, do you see the best word is departed. He didn't retire. evacuating is to leave vacated isn't really the correct usage of the word.

So it's the best answer because it makes the paragraph the most coherent, it's built the best way use that word to vacate from the tradition and you know, you'll vacate, you know, it's more dealing with physical space sometimes, or you can vacate a result, it doesn't really fit the tradition, you can depart from tradition. And that's kind of a phrase, type of phraseology that's used quite a bit in English. Let's continue. Here we have question number three, which is to make this paragraph most logical, said it's three should be placed. And this is a common style of question. So it's good to note, it's good to pay attention to this.

And so you have here on question three, where it's talking about, logical and let me get my writing tool again here because logical is key. Logical means it's understood and it's in the right order. So sentence three, which is up here, his interest was so keen, in fact, that he was named after Well, if you take a look at the early part of the passage, which is why you take a look at the first column where he has the other parts of the passage, even though there's nothing necessarily to underline, let's get there real quick. You'll see since number one, Kingman was keenly interested in landscape painting from an early age in Hong Kong, working and completed his schooling teachers at that time customarily assigned students a formal quote unquote, school name. So here you have at the end of the paragraph you have here asking you a question about sentence three.

And that's one of those things where you have to be careful, because I've had students they're looking at this sentence here, the wolf, this is sentence seven. But because the numbers here, they look at the wrong sentence. So, here you have his interest was so keen, in fact that he was named after it. Well, where are they talking about his interest. And here, look at sentence number one, you even have the same word. Kingman was keenly interested in landscape painting from an early age.

And then here, sentence three says his interest was so keen, in fact, that he was named after. So you have two links, keenly interested, and then it explains to you how keen his interest was. So right after sentence one makes the most sense. It's logical, both in the way it sounds and also in the fact that it mentions those two things. So for number three, you Get the answer as see, after sentence one. And keen and interest are both there.

And it makes it that much easier to make it logical. That's the key part. He was keenly interested in these things. And therefore, you have three C, because you can connect, you can link both the keen part and the interest part. And that's one thing to do with these kinds of questions where you have a logical connection. keenly interested.

All right. And then you have sentence three, his interest was so keen, in fact, well, that fits best right after it was mentioned the first time. So let's take a look at questions four and five. Okay. In his urban landscapes, Kingman captures the vibrancy of crowded cities is fine brushwork conveys detailed street level activity. A peanut vendor pushing this card on the sidewalk, a pigeon pecking for crumbs around a fire hydrant.

I'm sorry, let's read that the right way. A peanut vendor pushing his cart on the sidewalk, a pigeon pecking for crumbs around a fire hydrant. An old man tending to a baby outside a doorway. Now here what they're looking at is the bit of punctuation after hydrant. So you have here, a comma right after hydrate, semi colon. You have detail street like street level activity colon and then you have your list of peanut vendor pushing this card on the sidewalk comma, a pigeon pecking for crumbs on the fire hydrant comma and old man tending to a baby outside a doorway.

It's just a list of things. So Hear You have an answer, no chain, leave it the way it is dash, a colon, or nothing. So, General English, I think you can see that nothing would be a mistake D is out, you have to have something between the things that are on the list. Now colon is either a hard separation of different ideas, or it's the beginning of a list. So that's out as well. A dash is a further deeper analysis of the same topic.

Well, they give you a list of things and they divide the list with commas. So just process of elimination for number four gives you a so um, if you have the first phrases after let's move over here after your colon, right of street level activity, well what kind of street level activity do we have? We've got a list of these things. Peanut vendor, pigeon pecking for crumbs and old men turned into a baby. All of those are phrases separated by a comma. There's no need to have anything else including a dash after it.

And it makes for a best choice. So put that on your paper right there. Last one for this passage is number five. During his career, Kingman exhibited his work internationally. He garnered much acclaim. In 1936, a critic described one of Kingman solo exhibits as quote 20 of the freshest, most satisfying watercolors that have been seen here about any day.

And so if you take a look at what they're testing you on look at number five, which choice most effectively combines because if you'll notice in the passage, they're not combined. Which choice most effectively combines the sentences at the underlined portion. If you look at here, they're not combine their sentences, and now they haven't correctly written in the passage you can put a period there, Kingman exit during his career King Minh exhibited his work internationally. King when subject verb is exhibited his work internationally, there's your compliment, perfectly fine sentence. They're telling you to combine them. And then they're saying which one does it the best, which one most effectively combines them, I wouldn't combine them and neither would you, but they are telling you to do it.

So you want to see which one most effectively combines them. And what they're really doing is giving you a little bit of a test on punctuation and also seeing that the coherency in the sound works out best. So when you take a look at A and B, every time you see this kind of answer with lots of words. You got to be careful With this king when he exhibited his work internationally comma and Kingman also garnered well you know, you can have a comma and but it's you know, it gets wordy with this extra also, he exhibited his work internationally let's look at be semi colon from exhibiting comma he garnered again very wordy doesn't mean that these wordy ones are always wrong because the semi colon is the right choice here, but it's too chatty. It's too verbose, too wordy to products. Um, he garnered much acclaim.

He exhibited his work internationally, but garnered Well, this is certainly the wrong connection here because it says he garnered much acclaim exhibited his work, and it's causing effect. So it's not like it was something that was done this exhibiting his work and there was some kind of negative reaction because a claim is positive. So see is right away out. That's the one that's automatically out, took D. During his career, Kingman exhibited his work internationally, comma, garnering much acclaim. Period. Well, that's clear, short, concise, it maintains the meaning of the sentence.

And it is grammatically correct because here you have a comma garnering much acclaim. That's a dependent clause that's not its own sentence. So if you're going to use a comma, which they are, it fits both grammatically. And it fits in terms of coherency and making sure that the meaning of the sentence is not changed. A and B are putting in superfluous words, it's making it longer than it needs to be. So oftentimes, when you combine like a question, you have a question Like this, which asks you to combine, Well, okay, but combine them and usually easily 85% of the time.

It's going to be the short, clear, concise answer, which is why you'd have five D. All right, we'll do passage two in just a second look over your notes, look over how we described and went through these questions and do a short review. I'll see you in just a bit on the passage to Section