Q11 - Linguist: Three of the four subfamilies

[mshinners]

Question Type:
ID the Conclusion

Stimulus Breakdown:
A whole bunch of information is given about the Austronesian languages, which suggest that they originated in Taiwan and, hence, they started there and migrated elsewhere.

Answer Anticipation:
The first few sentences all are facts and/or have "Since" as a lead-in, so they're premises. The "these facts suggest" leads into a conclusion which ends up as an intermediate conclusion, which we know because it's followed up with a "hence", indicating the main conclusion. That last sentence will be our answer.

Correct Answer:
(E)

Answer Choice Analysis:
(A) Premise.

(B) Assumption between premise and intermediate conclusion.

(C) Intermediate conclusion.

(D) Assumption between intermediate and main conclusion.

(E) Bingo.

Takeaway/Pattern: Especially on earlier ID the Conclusion questions, keywords are your friend.

#officialexplanation

[laurenvarg]

Answer key says the answer to this question is B! Help!

[ohthatpatrick]

Yeah, I see what you're saying (with this one and with Q9).

In both cases, trust the explanation on this forum. There's apparently some typos in that pdf's answer key. Thanks for bringing it to our attention!