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Explanation for Question 43 From the Writing Section on the 2019 May Sat

43 represents another case where we have to decide how much punctuation is really 2 necessary in a particular context. 3 So here are the sentence reads, according to Valerie steel, 4 chief curator of the museum at the fashion Institute of technology, 5 a costume curator's job is to tell the story of the meaning of the 6 clothes. So we say that this quote is easily 7 smoothly integrated into the flow of the rest of the sentence. 8 So what that means for us is we don't actually need to provide any 9 type of additional punctuation to link that quote into the sentence as 10 a whole. Um, so that comma and the no change option is unnecessary. 11 This semi-colon definitely doesn't work since there's not a independent 12 clause on the other side and with a semi-colon, 13 we need to make sure we're working with two independent clauses, 14 um, choice C job comment is to, 15 again, it's breaking up this phrase unnecessarily. 16 So when the reader reads that comment as a pause, 17 it will come across as confusing because there's really no need for a pause 18 there. So really our best answer is choice. 19 D D is the most effective. Um, 20 it integrates that quote into the sentence as smoothly and efficiently 21 as possible, and it doesn't bring in any unnecessary punctuation that would confuse our 22 reader. So choice D for number 43,