[Video] Q12: No change or saxe-meiningen-established or saxe-meiningen, established or saxe-meiningen established

Explanation for Question 12 From the Writing Section on the 2019 April Sat

Now for number 12, we're looking at the sentence here, 2 which says when George, the second duke of a small German principality called 3 Saks Mannington established a local theater in 1866, 4 he oversaw every aspect of each production. 5 And so the first thing I want to point out as we see this 6 dash here, we see that we're describing George the second, 7 right? So what we have is most certainly in a positive phrase. 8 And when you have in a positive phrase, you can set off that phrase 9 in between two dashes, 10 or you can put that phrase in between two commas. 11 And so we already see that we have a dash, 12 right? They started, this, started us off with the dash and we can't change 13 that it's already there. So that tells us whatever answer choices. 14 It needs to have a dash, not a comma, 15 because you're not allowed to mix and match. 16 You either do two dashes or two commas. 17 And now the question is, where does that dash go? 18 Should it go after established? Like we see here in a, 19 or should it go before established? And the way that you check is you 20 one find your potential, a positive phrase, 21 which is right here to you cross it out. 22 And then you read the sentence and you see if the sentence makes sense. 23 And the way our sentence is now, it says, when George the second, 24 a local theater in 1866, 25 and you wouldn't say when George the second a local theater, 26 because you have to wonder what is happening with the local theater. 27 There's no verb, ...