New SAT Writing and Language : Rhetoric: Sentences: Paragraphs
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Example Question #3 : Ordering Sentences
[1] While the Grand Canyon is the largest canyon system on Earth, it is not the largest in our solar system. [2] The largest known canyon system in our solar system, Valles Marineris, is four times as deep and nine times as long as the Grand Canyon. [3] If you’ve ever been to the Grand Canyon, you can understand how vast the canyon system really is. [4] Valles Marineris is found on our neighboring planet, Mars.
For the sake of the logic of the passage, sentence 3 should be placed
Where it is now
Before sentence 1
After sentence 1
After sentence 4
Before sentence 1
Whenever a question asks you to place a sentence within the context of the paragraph in order to increase the logic of the paragraph, remember that the SAT almost always puts its passages in chronological order. Sentence 3 introduces the passage details, discussing the size of the Grand Canyon, in a statement that hooks the reader. Sentence 3 will best introduce the idea of the passage, as it interrupts the flow between sentence 2 and sentence 4, which both discuss the size and location of Valles Marineris.
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