Explanation for Question 5 From the Writing Section on the 2017 May Sat
Let's look at question five. It says where protection does have a major economic 2 impact is in local communities. Visitors to protect state lands, 3 need food fuel and lodging and businesses that cater to these needs provide 4 job opportunities in the surrounding communities. 5 So based on our answer choices, 6 we can see that they think it's too long. It might be a run 7 on sentence and we need to split it up somewhere. 8 Um, the place that we're splitting it up is in an underlined section between 9 communities and visitors, and we have three options, 10 um, to change it with a semi-colon or comma or a period, 11 or we can decide, no, 12 this is not too long. It's not, um, 13 a run-on sentence. We don't need any punctuation here and keep it as is. 14 So let's read it one more time and see if we think we need 15 that punctuation where protection does have a major economic impact 16 is in local communities, visitors to protect it. 17 And Lance need food that definitely needs some type of punctuation. 18 We see a clear break in idea between communities and visitors. 19 The first part is talking about, um, 20 or is setting up introducing the second part. 21 And then the second part starts off with visitors to protect state lands, 22 need food, fuel and lodging. So we do want that punctuation so we can 23 cross out a, we know it won't be that one. 24 Then we have B we're separating them with a semi-colon. 25 We can have semi-colon between two sentences that are very related, 26 ...