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Explanation for Question 19 From the Writing Section on the 2019 May Sat

Question number 19 is testing our knowledge of appropriate punctuation. 2 Um, remember it's important that all punctuation serve a purpose and you don't 3 just insert punctuation into sentences where it's not needed, 4 just because you maybe have a hunch that it's what you're supposed to do. 5 So looking at our answer choices here for 19 and the original sentence right 6 now, it says the influential English author, 7 Samuel Johnson, demanded to see the original manuscripts that MacPherson had translated. 8 So right now, this idea of the manuscripts and 9 MacPherson's translations, these go pretty much hand in hand. 10 These are manuscripts that MacPherson had translated. 11 So this is all kind of part of one unit we're describing manuscripts, 12 which manuscripts, oh, the manuscripts that MacPherson had translated. 13 And there's no other details in this paragraph following, 14 um, this initial referencing of the manuscripts. 15 If the risk further details, we might want to create an aside here to, 16 um, provide some context for the manuscripts, 17 but really we just see this sentence flowing quite naturally. 18 Um, we don't need to insert any asides or anything. 19 So in this case, we're 19, we actually don't need to insert any punctuation 20 at all. There's no need for a comma or a semi-colon or any other 21 punctuation. Um, we just see that they, 22 the influential author demanded to the original manuscripts that MacPherson had translated. 23 So these details kind of the ...