[Video] Q9: No change or and leaving or to leave or but leaving

Explanation for Question 9 From the Writing Section on the 2019 May Sat

Question number nine is asking us about the appropriate tense of the verbally leaving. 2 Um, so we want to look at the context of the use 3 of this verb. According to Princeton university, 4 geologists, Gretta, Keller, climate, 5 altering gas and dust clouds from these volcanic eruptions could have caused most of 6 the extinctions during this period, comma leaving and leaving to leave, 7 or, but leaving the few surviving dinosaur species to be eliminated by the asteroid 8 impact. So here we have, 9 um, sort of the, the main action of the sentence, 10 according to Princeton university geologists, 11 climate alter gas and dust from these volcanic eruptions could have caused 12 most of the extinctions during this period. 13 And then we have a dependent clause at the end here where we're talking 14 about the effects of, you know, 15 if this gas and dust had caused those extinctions, 16 um, we want to make sure we're picking the right form of leaving or 17 to leave here to illustrate that with the dependent clause, 18 is there choice a, the no change option says leaving the few surviving dinosaur 19 species to be eliminated. 20 This is pretty clear and concise. Um, 21 it works to establish this as a dependent clause since leaving, 22 um, creates a dependent clause here. 23 Um, and generally it's brief concise and it gets the meaning across. 24 So it works pretty well B and leaving, 25 uh, doesn't really quite fit because we don't have another verb kind of proceeding 26 and leaving...