[Video] Q33: A) no change or b) could, at the very least— or c) could, at the very least, or d) could or at the very least,

Explanation for Question 33 From the Writing Section on the 2018 April Sat

Hey guys. So question 33, assessing our knowledge of our uses of dashes and 2 commas. So when it comes to the sentence, 3 what they're saying is Johnson understood that he could not preserve his language dash, 4 um, this point. So the reason, 5 the way they're using a dash here is almost like a, 6 uh, colon, like they're making a sub point, 7 um, w a in a dependent clause that is connected 8 to the overall main point as an example, 9 um, of what he's doing or his risk in this case, 10 he, his response to it, and an example of his response. 11 So when we do a dash like that, 12 we want to just say, like, you know, um, 13 he, uh, had a lot of issues. 14 Um, he had, he had many way, 15 like, or let's say he had many, 16 um, pets, um, 17 dash, um, two dogs and a cat. 18 So we want to keep the second part, following it as in, 19 uh, as a dependent clause, because we're doing a dash right there, 20 but at the dependent clause ended up itself, obviously needs to be grammatically proper. 21 This doesn't mean that we're using two dashes to dash. 22 It would be if we are trying to say something like, 23 um, the man, um, 24 uh, dash, um, who is, 25 um, sad dash, 26 went to the store, something like that, that adds in that adds an extra 27 information, but we're not doing that right here. We're not using extra information to 28 rename this now. And I'm the man. So we don't need a second dash. 29 That's not what we're doing here. So we can get rid of this option. 30 That includes the seco...