SAT Text Structure and Purpose Question
The following text is adapted from Matthew Arnold's 1869 nonfiction book Culture and Anarchy. The Times, replying to some foreign strictures on the dress, looks, and behaviour of the English abroad, urges that the English ideal is that every one should be free to do and to look just as he likes. But culture indefatigably tries, not to make what each raw person may like the rule by which he fashions himself, but to draw ever nearer to a sense of what is indeed beautiful, graceful, and becoming, and to get the raw person to like that. Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
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The trap here
Text Structure: naming what a sentence says instead of what it does — "What is the function of the underlined sentence?" asks for its job in the paragraph, not its content.