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SAT Writing

Category - Improving Sentences

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

Palladium often replaces platinum since it is cheaper, harder and lighter. It can be drawn into wire or hammered out into sheets, it is often mixed with gold for “white gold” jewelry. Palladium can also be used to make surgical instruments. Automobile manufacturers need the world’s palladium for catalytic converters.
  1. need the world’s palladium
  2. need all of the world’s palladium
  3. need palladium
  4. need most of the world’s palladium
Explanation
Answer: D - The best choice is “need most of the world’s palladium”

The original sentence implies that automobile manufacturers use all of the world’s palladium for catalytic converters, which is inaccurate. Setting aside “the world’s” can possibly change the sentence’s intended meaning. “Need most of the world’s palladium” properly conveys how much of the metal automobile manufacturers use.
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