[Video] Q19: Caes, or caes or or caes or caes-

Answer Choices

  • CAES,

  • CAES

  • CAES

  • CAES-

Explanation for Question 19 From the Writing Section on the 2018 April Sat

Hey guys. So question 19 is dealing with punctuation mid sentence, 2 and this sentence says second, even where these permissions exist, 3 reinforcing them and building the infrastructure for CAS can cost upwards 4 of a hundred million. So the question is, 5 should we have a comma or a pause after CAEs? 6 And it seems to imply here that we shouldn't one second. 7 Sorry about that. Um, so the question is, do we need a pause or 8 a break after CAEs? And what seems to be saying here is that reinforcing 9 them and building the infrastructure for CS can do this. 10 So if I were to say, um, the, 11 the dog can bark. 12 If I were to say something can do this, 13 there's no reason to make a pause in between those two statements because it's, 14 it's not, it's not separating to, 15 um, independent or dependent clauses. 16 It's taking a break in the middle of a clause that messes up the 17 meaning. 18 So now we have this common that's unnecessary and the unnecessarily stopping part 19 of our clause. And this is just telling us that reinforcing them and build 20 an infrastructure for CA S can cost upwards of a hundred million. 21 So if we do a dash or a semi-colon or a comma, 22 we're taking an unnecessary break that isn't needed, 23 um, within, within the sentence only to do is say that the CES does 24 this, the CES can cost upwards of a hundred million. 25 When we say the CAS dash can cost upwards of a hundred million, 26 or semi-colon, we're not using a semi-colon in the proper way to...

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