[Video] Q7: No change or park is or park is, or park is:

Explanation for Question 7 From the Writing Section on the 2018 May Sat

Question number seven is asking us about the grammatical rules of using a comma 2 or a colon in the sentence. Right now, 3 the sentence reads one example of a successful landfill park is fresh kills 4 a space on the coast of Staten island, New York. 5 That was once a 2,200 acre dump. 6 So here we're using this example, 7 um, in order to illustrate exactly what happens when we convert these landfills 8 into parks. What we're looking at here is the use of a 9 comma after park and whether that makes sense or whether the comma should potentially 10 go somewhere else. Um, so it's important to note that, 11 uh, whenever we're using a comma, we want to make sure that it is 12 serving a purpose. There's a clear reason for why that comma is being employed. 13 We definitely don't want to go. And in commas, 14 just randomly throughout our writing, that would make it very confusing for the reader. 15 So in this case, this, um, 16 this first part of the sentence is all one complete thought. 17 It says one example of a successful landfill park is fresh kills. 18 So there's no reason to break that up with any commas or colons 19 or anything like that. Um, 20 this is all one detail. It flows together nicely, 21 and there's no reason to interrupt it. And we want to keep that detail 22 about where's the successful landfill park. 23 Oh, it's fresh kills. We want to keep that all together. 24 Don't want to interrupt it with any unnecessary grammatical devices. 25 So for that reason, we're going ...