[Video] Q29: No change or explains that her role at the farmers’ market involves: or explains, that her role at the farmers’ market involves or explains that her role at the farmers’ market involves

Answer Choices

  • NO CHANGE

  • explains that her role at the farmers’ market involves:

  • explains, that her role at the farmers’ market involves

  • explains that her role at the farmers’ market involves

Explanation for Question 29 From the Writing Section on the 2020 March Sat

Now for question number 29, our best answer's going to be deep first off, 2 because we don't want any punctuation after the word explains, 3 because if we look at our sense, it says that she enthusiastically explains that 4 and explains to that goes together. It's one clause. 5 So we don't want to put any punctuation in the middle. 6 It's fine. Um, see it's going to be incorrect because it separates the explains 7 that which belongs as one simple phrase together. 8 Um, additionally, uh, Eddie is going to be incorrect because of this colon 9 right here. If we look at that colon, 10 we should know by now maybe the independent clause and an independent clause, 11 those can be separated by a colon. So if I have a colon right 12 here, that means that what comes before and what comes after needs to be 13 an independent clause. But in fact, 14 what comes before this claw or this colon is not an independent clause. 15 It just says that dice Dyson enthusiastically explains that. 16 And it's not a complete sentence, right? We don't know what she explains. 17 And so since that colon is not preceded by an independent clause, 18 a must be incorrect. And finally B um, 19 is, uh, wrong for kind of the same reason, 20 right? Because if I have that colon there, then what follows must also be 21 a, an independent clause. And in fact, 22 if I were to put a colon here, this quotation and this 23 other quotation do not form an independent clause, 24 right? So I'm missing the second half year. Our...

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