[Video] Q7: No change or information to provide or information or providing or information, provides

Explanation for Question 7 From the Writing Section on the 2017 April Sat

Question seven asks about the appropriate punctuation to use. 2 In this context, the sentence reads electronic health record systems can actually 3 reduce errors by for instance, 4 cross-referencing drug information comma. 5 This provides doctors with automatic warnings about possible adverse drug reactions 6 into reactions. So the reason this is kind of incorrect as it stands now 7 is because we're using a common to connect two independent portions of the sentence. 8 Both this portion, electronic health record systems can actually reduce errors by 9 for instance, cross-referencing drug information. 10 And this provides doctors with automatic warnings about possible adverse drug interactions, 11 both are independent. So we want to make sure not to combine them with 12 a comma commas are used to combined dependent and independent 13 sentences, not two independent clauses. 14 So the no change option has eliminated choice. 15 B says information to provide in contexts that would say, 16 um, electronic health record systems can reduce errors by cross-referencing 17 drug information to provide doctors with automatic warnings about possible adverse 18 drug interactions. 19 So this actually flows quite naturally. There's no grammatical issues here caused by the 20 punctuation so we can select answer choice B um, 21 the issues with choice C and D also have to deal with our sort 22 of rules for, um, comma and semi-colon usage with dependent 23 independent clauses. Um, 24 answer choice ...