[Video] Q12: No change or holmes, having plunged, or holmes or having plunged or holmes having plunged

Explanation for Question 12 From the Writing Section on the 2018 May Sat

Looking now at question number 12, we are moving on to our second paragraph 2 of the May, 2018 writing section. 3 Um, this is called a Swan song for Sherlock Holmes. 4 Let's take a look at the context of the sentence. 5 So here we see the sentence currently reads, 6 um, with homes at the height of his popularity readers who purchased the strands 7 December, 1893 issue were taken aback by the shocking conclusion of latest installment 8 homes. Having plunged from a waterfall in Switzerland while fighting his enemy was 9 dead. So what we want to do here is figure out how to construct 10 this sentence in a grammatically correct way, 11 um, and just make sure that we're not breaking any punctuation rules as we're 12 trying to get our point across to the reader. So looking at the sentence 13 as it stands now, let's first take a look and see if there are 14 any existing issues. 15 Um, it currently reads, 16 um, homes having punch from a waterfall was dead. 17 Um, with this additional detail kind of included. 18 Um, what we see is this, this detail about how he died is 19 actually set aside with a set of two commas. 20 So we can read the sentence as Holmes was dead, 21 or we can read it as homes, having pun for a waterfall in switching 22 land data, dada was dead. So this works, 23 we're using the same punctuation to set off that detail. 24 Um, the sentence works without that detail. 25 Those are our usual two checks to see if this works. 26 So no problems currently existing. 27 Um, ...