Answer Choices
NO CHANGE
disposition
she says,
disposition, she says,
disposition: she says
Explanation for Question 41 From the Writing Section on the 2019 March Sat
Question number 41 is all about connecting these two phrases. 2 Um, if we look at the sentence right now, 3 we're talking about another zookeeper at the zoo exemplifies this disposition. 4 She says she is comfortable working weekends and holidays to character, 5 the zoos animals. So we kind of see this split right here, 6 where we have, um, an independent clause on our left side that 7 is, this part of the sentence can stand completely on its own and it 8 has a complete subject and for pear. 9 Um, and then on the other side, we see, um, 10 similarly another independent clause because that side of the 11 sentence that she says she is comfortable working weekends and holidays to care for 12 the zoos animals also can stand independently as its own sentence. 13 So to connect to, um, 14 independent clauses, um, 15 one main option that we have is to use either ice semi-colon 16 a colon or a coordinating conjunction. 17 And those are, those are often what we'll choose to do in these situations 18 to combine independent clauses into one sentence. 19 So in the no change option, 20 there's just a comma here. Um, 21 we want to be careful never to try to combine two independent clauses with 22 commas. Um, when we use a comment that's to combine a dependent clause 23 with an independent clause, never to combine two independent clauses. 24 So choice a is out choice B uses a semi-colon, 25 um, and it says, she says comma, 26 she has worked comfortable working weekends and holidays. 27 In fa...