LSAT 120 | Section 4 | Logical Reasoning: Q3

LR Question 3 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Professor: The best users of a language are its great authors…

QUESTION TYPE: Most Strongly Supported

PARADOX: Great authors are the most skilled at their languages, and also the most likely to step outside the bounds of ordinary usage.

ANALYSIS: This makes sense. It takes the skill of a great author to properly ignore the rules.

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1. I don’t see why not. You might make some mistakes, but eventually you’ll learn when you can break the rules, too.
2. This isn’t supported. We only know about great authors, not everyone who breaks the rules.
3. CORRECT. Yes. Great authors have the courage to break the rules.
4. No one said anything about great authors being criticized for their grammar.
5. That could be dangerous, and encourage poor prose by ordinary writers. The stimulus only tells us about how great authors tend to write, not how everyone ought to write.

Recap: The question begins with “Professor: The best users of a language are its great authors”. It is a Most Strongly Supported question. Learn how to master LSAT MSS questions on the LSAT Logical Reasoning question types page.