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Explanation for Question 2 From the Writing Section on the 2019 May Sat

And question number two, we are, again, 2 looking at the punctuation being used and we want to make sure the sentence 3 we come up with is grammatically correct. And it's easily interpreted 4 by the reader it's logical and it just flows well so that they understand 5 what our point is. So the sentence right now reads this massive wave of 6 extinctions has long fascinated scientists, 7 their proposal of numerous explanations for it. 8 So the, the idea of the sentence is that because there's massive way of 9 big sanctions is fascinating to scientists. 10 They've come up with a lot of different explanations for it. 11 We can see the extent of their fascination with this period in 12 the amount of explanations they've kind of come up with. 13 So we want to figure out how to connect these two details. 14 Um, answer choice, a uses, 15 um, a comma to connect these clauses. 16 So we're going to want to know whether these are dependent or independent clauses, 17 because that will tell us what type of punctuation is appropriate to use. 18 So this massive wave of extinctions has long fascinated scientists. 19 This is a complete sentence. It can stand by itself and it makes complete 20 sense. It has a subject, it has a verb. So it's independent. 21 Um, the second part, their proposal of numerous explanations for it right now 22 is a dependent clause. Although some of these answer choices are going to modify 23 that. So answer choice a, 24 um, doesn't quite make sense, their proposal of n...