SAT Boundaries Question

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Question 1 · Easy · Reading and WritingOctober 2024 Batch 2 · Q18Boundaries · 0 solved

Nadifa Mohamed is a novelist from Hargeisa, Somalia, who has earned international acclaim in recent years. Writers of other literary forms, such as poetry and drama, are less likely to be recognized beyond their nations' borders, but many are still well ______ Koulsy Lamko, for example, is a celebrated playwright from Chad.

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Strategy

When a sentence provides a specific example to illustrate a general statement, a colon correctly introduces that example. The first sentence establishes that writers of poetry and drama are 'well known,' and the second sentence gives a concrete example. The colon signals that what follows is an illustrative example of the preceding generalization.

Hints (open one at a time)

Hint 1

The second sentence provides a specific example (Koulsy Lamko) of the general category described in the first sentence

Hint 2

A colon is used to introduce an example or elaboration that illustrates what precedes it

Hint 3

Notice the sentence structure: the first part states a general fact, and the second part gives an illustration

Step-by-step Explanation

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The trap here

The SAT colon rule: the part that matters is BEFORE the colon — Students check what follows the colon. The SAT checks what precedes it — it must be a complete sentence.