[Video] Q34: No change or greece, granting or greece, it granted or greece and granting

Explanation for Question 34 From the Writing Section on the 2020 March Sat

Now for 34, our best, answer's going to be B. 2 And for these types of questions where you're working on punctuation, 3 I think that process of elimination is the best way to go about these 4 questions. But first we should start by reading what the sentence says to begin 5 with. It says that Elgin arrived with a permit from officials of the Ottoman 6 empire, which then occupied Greece. 7 Now, if we're just looking at that first part, we know that this is 8 an independent clause, right? Because it has our subject Elgin and the verb arrived. 9 So we're starting with an independent clause. 10 And then it goes on to say, granting him permission to make decisions and 11 cast the sculptures. The permit also allowed him to take away any piece of 12 stone and what we can immediately immediately see is that what follows here, 13 this part before the semi-colon is actually a dependent clause and 14 we should see immediately, then the answer choice a has to be wrong because 15 we have this semi-colon. 16 And in order for a semi-colon to be used, 17 you must have an independent clause on both sides of the semi-colon. 18 But right now we have a dependent clause. So we have to change something 19 that will allow us to turn that dependent clause into an independent clause. 20 And if we look at B that's exactly what happens, 21 right? We're taking this dependent clause right here in red and adding 22 it onto our initial independent clause by putting a comma before the ING verb. 23 And this i...