Answer Choices
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Explanation for Question 9 From the Writing Section on the 2017 April Sat
All right. Question nine is looking at this, 2 um, punctuation after the word are, 3 let's take a look at the sentence as a whole to see what we 4 need to do here. Furthermore, patient privacy has no more threat in bio electronic 5 records than it is by paper records, which are according to the U S 6 department of health and human services typically access by at least 150 different healthcare 7 professionals. So what we see here is an aside being created, 8 um, where this detail, according to the U S department of health and human 9 services is kind of a clarification of where our data is coming from. 10 Um, but it's not critical to the main action of the sentence. 11 In other words, the main action, the sentence still sounds fine as is chronically 12 correct without this idea. If we said, 13 um, patient privacy is no more threatened by electronic records than by paper records, 14 which are typically access by at least 150 healthcare professionals, 15 that still works. 16 So because we're creating an aside here, 17 we want to make sure that we're starting and ending that aside with the 18 same form of punctuation, sort of like how we use closed parentheses and open 19 parentheses, so we can see that they go together. 20 Um, so here on this side, we have a comma. 21 So we're going to want to select an answer choice that has a comma 22 here after our as well. 23 That's going to be answer choice C the other answer choices don't effectively create 24 that aside either they don't use, 25 um, uh, for punctuation that we might use or an aside such as parentheses 26 a dash or a comma, 27 or they use their own form that doesn't match up with how we close 28 the aside at the other end. So choice C is the best answer.