[Video] Q10: No change or banks, grocery, stores or banks or grocery stores, or banks or grocery stores

Explanation for Question 10 From the Writing Section on the 2020 March Sat

Now for number 10, our best. Answer's going to be a, 2 because a is the only answer choice that shows the correct form of a 3 list. Now, when we think about lists, 4 the correct form is going to be X comma, 5 Y comma and Z, right? 6 So you need commas to separate everything. And you need an answer before the 7 last item in the list. And here in our list, 8 our first item is going to be banks. That would be our X, 9 Y would be our grocery stores and other businesses would be our Z. 10 And we can see the, as it is, we have a comment and, 11 and then we have a commas to separate. 12 Um, the other two items in the list. 13 Now what's wrong with a B is that it inserts an extra comma between 14 grocery stores. And since grocery stores is one item, 15 it's one why we don't want to put a comment in the middle of 16 it. 17 Now B uses a semi-colon and it uses a comma. 18 And it's true. Semi-colons can be used in lists, 19 but you're not allowed to mix and match. If you use a semi-colon in 20 one place, you need to use a semi-colon and the other places, 21 if you need to use a comma, you should use a comma and all 22 the places. So C is wrong because it mix and matches punctuation, 23 um, and D these wrong again, 24 because it's done some mixing and matching. It's put a semi-colon in one spot, 25 but it's also missing the punctuation after grocery stores. 26 And so ASB only answer choice that correctly follows the form of a list. 27 As we can see up here.