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Explanation for Question 23 From the Writing Section on the 2019 May Sat

Okay. We are now taking a look at our third, 2 um, passage of this May, 2019 reading exam. 3 And the first question here is going to be question number 23. 4 This is a punctuation question. We're trying to figure out what the appropriate punctuation 5 is here. Brother hits a comma, 6 a dash, a colon, lots of different options here. 7 So the sentence itself reads in 2014, 8 the office of inspector general of the United States postal service released a report 9 containing a surprising recommendation post offices should offer their customers banking services, 10 such as refillable debt cards, check cashing and offering small loans. 11 So here we want to emphasize the recommendation itself. 12 Um, so it makes sense to insert some type of punctuation, 13 um, following, um, 14 the recommendation so that the reader can tell, 15 okay, in 2014, there's this report containing a recommendation 16 and then they can clearly see what the recommendation itself was since that's the 17 main focus of this sentence. 18 So, um, answer choices, 19 a C and D all kind of have that punctuation here, 20 the colon, and a very nicely sets up. 21 Okay, here's the background. And then here's our recommendation. 22 And then it makes it very clear to the reader. What that recommendation was, 23 um, answer choice C does that, 24 um, sort of similarly, but it's a little bit less correct because we're using 25 a comma and we're trying to combine independent clauses here. 26 Um, they re the office released a r...