[Video] Q16: No change or light. particularly or light, particularly or light, particularly or

Answer Choices

  • NO CHANGE

  • light. Particularly

  • light, particularly

  • light, particularly

Explanation for Question 16 From the Writing Section on the 2019 October Sat

Now number 16 we can see is a punctuation question. 2 And when you, whenever you have a punctuation question, 3 it's usually best to go through a process of elimination approach rather than trying 4 to see the correct answer right off the bat. So let's go ahead and 5 take a look at the question, which says that these blue light wavelengths are 6 the same as those admitted by artificial sources of light, 7 particular Lee on computer screens to watch television and 8 cell phones. And so the question that we can ask ourselves first is what 9 is the sentence doing? Right. We see that we have blue light wavelengths that 10 are on artificial sources of light. 11 And then we introduce a list of items, 12 right? Computer screens, televisions, 13 and cell phones. And so when we think about what this light is doing 14 and what this word particularly is doing, 15 right, they're setting us up for a list. 16 And so this word particularly is kind of like a transition word that 17 you would see at the beginning of a sentence, except they've put it at 18 the end. And when we think about transition words at the beginning of sentences, 19 as we see in, um, 20 believe there's a question on transition words in here, 21 kind of like we see in question five, right? They're usually followed by a 22 comma. So when you see words that kind of sit on their own, 23 like particularly they do their own thing, 24 but they're used as an introduction to a new sense. 25 We normally want them to be followed by...

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