[Video] Q15: No change or highlander, he grew or highlander, growing or highlander, he had grown

Explanation for Question 15 From the Writing Section on the 2019 May Sat

For number 15, we are just rewriting the underlined portion. 2 The sentence right now says my first one was a Scottish Highlander who grew 3 up listening to songs and stories in the Gaelic language. 4 So here, what we're doing is we're introducing this individual, 5 James MacPherson, just providing a little bit of background on him. 6 So he was a Scottish Highlander who grew up listening to songs and stories 7 and Gaelic. Um, this is totally grammatically correct, 8 and it sets up a good focus for our next paragraph. 9 So no issues with choice, a choice B says, 10 um, he was a Highlander comma, and he grew up listening to stories, 11 songs, and stories in the Gaelic language here, 12 we see that we have an independent clause on this side. 13 Um, he was a Scottish Highlander can stand by itself and, 14 um, he grew up listening to songs and stories and the Gaelic language is 15 also going to be an independent clause. 16 So using a comma to connect those two independent clauses is incorrect. 17 Remember, you can use a semi-colon when you have two independent clauses, 18 but not a comma choice. C says, 19 um, it was a Scottish Highlander growing up, 20 listening to songs and stories in the Gaelic language. 21 So here we kind of have the reverse problem. 22 Um, using, growing makes that second piece, 23 a dependent clause. So now we have a dependent clause and an independent clause, 24 a comma here might work, but in this case there's actually a semi-colon 25 and a semi-colon does...