[Video] Q28: No change or food, rather, or food or rather, or food, rather:

Explanation for Question 28 From the Writing Section on the 2020 March Sat

Now question number 20, our best answer is going to be C the reason 2 being, because what we have here is really two independent clauses. 3 If we look at the first half of the sentence, 4 it says this, those are typically not hired to offer direct services such as 5 delivering food. And that's a complete sentence because we have our subject vistas 6 and then we also have our verb hired. 7 And so with that in mind, we have an independent clause at the beginning, 8 right? And then we have our second part of the sentence, 9 which I'll highlight in yellow, which says rather they use their talents on big 10 picture initiatives, such as building capacity and improving the financial health of organizations 11 that employ them. And this is also an independent clause, 12 right? Because here our subject is they and our verb is used. 13 And if we have two independent clauses, there are a couple of ways that 14 we can connect them. 15 But just the comma is not one of them. 16 So that's why a, B and D are wrong because you're not 17 allowed to connect two independent clauses with just a comma, 18 but you can in fact use a semi-colon. 19 Right. And so we can also go a little bit further and talk about 20 why this comma after rather is correct. 21 And that's because rather is a transition word. 22 It's like an introductory clause. And if we were to look at the sentence 23 before number 20, or the question before 27, 24 this is a transition word question. And you can see that after every transition 25 word, there's a comma. And that will always be the case. 26 So since rather as like an introductory clause or a transition word, 27 we need that comma. So our best answer is going to be C.