SAT Writing

Category - Improving Sentences

Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A.

The war in 1999 garneredinternational attention both countriestested nuclear weapons successfully.
  1. international attention both countries
  2. international attention because both countries
  3. international attention and both countries
  4. international attention but both countries
Explanation
Answer: B - The best choice is “international attention because both countries”

A conjunction can join the two clauses in this sentence. “Because” is the only conjunction that tells readers why the war gained “international attention.”
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