[Video] Q36: No change or sharing- or sharing or or sharing:

Explanation for Question 36 From the Writing Section on the 2017 April Sat

Question number 36 as a demand for flexible working options in today's 2 marketplace has grown job sharing and arrangement in which one full-time is split 3 between two employees has become more common. 4 So in this situation, we have this aside kind of taking place, 5 um, this detail here and arrangement in which one full-time job is split between 6 two employees. This detail is being used to kind of clarify what the meaning 7 of job sharing is, um, 8 without creating an additional sentence in order to do so. 9 So we're kind of inserting that definition into the middle of this sentence, 10 without that detail, the sentence would be grammatically correct and flow correctly, 11 or it should. Um, but this, 12 this would kind of lack, um, an understanding of what job sharing actually is. 13 So we include that detail, that definition in the middle to both provide 14 the reader with an understanding of what job sharing is while also not disrupting 15 the flow of the sentence too much. 16 So looking at our answer choices, we want to select an answer choice that 17 uses kind of the same form of punctuation to begin and close 18 this aside, because when we kind of use that same form of punctuation, 19 it's clear to the reader, what we're doing, um, 20 and their eyes can kind of skip over that, that aside detail, 21 if they need to, to get to the rest of the main action of 22 the sentence. So we say that this aside as closed up down here with 23 a dash, which means that we want it to ...