[Video] Q5: No change or notes or or notes- or notes.

Explanation for Question 5 From the Writing Section on the 2019 April Sat

Now number five is a punctuation question. 2 And whenever you see a punctuation question, 3 I want you to start splitting up the sentence into pieces, 4 making the split it, where you see the punctuation that's in question, 5 right? And so we have really two clauses here, 6 one in orange, one in green, and a good way to go about this 7 question is going to be, to decide if those clauses are independent dependent 8 or a mix of the two, right? 9 So the orange part says without even consulting notes, 10 that's a dependent clause, right? Cause we have no subject. 11 There's no subject in the, um, in the orange part, 12 you might call it an introductory clause intro clause because 13 that's what we call dependent clauses. That start a sentence. 14 Then in green, we have Dr. King began to speak passionately about challenges, 15 comments to Jamaica and the United States. 16 So here we have a subject, Dr. 17 King, we have our verb, you know, 18 began to speak. And it's also a complete thought. 19 So this is a complete sentence. It's an independent clause. 20 And the general rule, when you have a dependent clause before an independent clause, 21 is that you use a comma to separate this to, 22 this is something. If you haven't seen it before, you can write down because 23 that's a general rule that will apply to pretty much all cases. 24 When you have a dependent clause before an independent clause. 25 And the only answer with the comma is no change, 26 but we can also do a little bit ...