[Video] Q35: No change or solution. job or solution job or solution: job

Explanation for Question 35 From the Writing Section on the 2017 April Sat

Question 35, the sentence starts out in order to retain these 2 top engineers, the company promotes a creative solution job sharing. 3 So the question is, how do I want to link job sharing to the 4 rest of the sentence? The goal of the author here is to a, 5 achieve this in a grammatically correct fashion and B to kind of set this 6 up a little bit, traumatically a creative solution, 7 pause for a fact job sharing. 8 So when we look at our answer choices, 9 let's first go through and establish which of these are correct versus incorrect. 10 We'll see that our no change option uses this semi-colon. 11 And remember anytime we're using a semi-colon, 12 it has to be accompanied on both sides by an independent clause. 13 In this case, the part that follows job sharing is not a full sentence. 14 It cannot stand on its own. So we can't use a semi-colon with that 15 detail. 16 So we can eliminate choice a choice B kind of achieves a similar 17 problem, um, by using a period to separate solution and job, 18 um, this makes job sharing stand on its own, 19 which it cannot, it doesn't have a verb there. So, 20 um, we can eliminate B it creates a sentence fragment rather 21 than a full sentence, uh, answer choice C doesn't use sort of any 22 form of punctuation in between solution and job. 23 So it's unclear to the reader exactly how job sharing fits into the 24 sentence. Um, and that doesn't really make much sense. 25 So that's why we can eliminate choice C and that leaves us with answer...