People who have habitually slept less than six hours a night and then begin sleeping eight or more hours a night typi...

shunhe on July 20, 2020

Hey there,

Thanks for the question! So this isn’t one that you need to diagram in my opinion, and probably not one that I would’ve diagrammed, but you certainly can diagram it. Let’s take it sentence by sentence.

People who have habitually slept less than six hours a night and then begin sleeping eight or more hours a night typically begin to feel much less anxious. OK, well, since these people “typically” begin to feel much less anxious, we can say that at least “some,” and probably “most,” feel much less anxious. I’ll use “most” here:

People who have habitually slept <6 hours and now sleep 8+ hours —most—> Feel much less anxious

Then, we’re told that most people who sleep less than six hours a night can probably cause their anxiety levels to fall by beginning to sleep at least 8 hours a night. Well, this is a pretty clear “most” statement, so

People who sleep <6 hours —most—> Probably cause anxiety levels to fall by beginning to sleep 8+ hours

Now let’s take a look at (A), which would be diagrammed as the following:

Small company first advertises on internet —most—> Financial situation improves
Small companies that haven’t advertised on internet —most—> Probably improve financial situation by advertising on internet

And as we can see, these are parallel, so (A) is the correct answer.

Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.

Nativeguy on August 4, 2020

Thank you so much this helps a lot