June 2020 LSAT Section 2 Question 18

Classicist: Our mastery of Latin and Ancient Greek is at best imperfect. The best students of a modern language may ...

JonJay on July 8, 2022

What does Answer Choice (B) even mean?

I'm confused by the syntax of the phrase "It points up by example a contrast from which the conclusion is drawn." What does "pointing up" mean in context here? Overall, please explain how B is correct in general. Thank you, Jon

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Emil-Kunkin on July 11, 2022

Hi JonJay,

This is one of the trickiest answer choices- before this question I had never heard the expression "to point up," and a lot of students struggle with B. Having the benefit of google, I can say that "points up" means brings attention to- so this is saying that it brings attention to a contrast from which a conclusion is drawn by example.

That said, we do not have the benefit of google, so as a test-taker, we would probably have to figure this out from context. I think that we could see that this is an argument by analogy. While I wouldn't know what ``points up'' means, I could read B as "it [uses/points/something?] by example a contrast from which a conclusion is drawn. While I would not be very confident, this version of B does seem like it is describing an argument by analogy- which matches the passage.