[Video] Q11: No change or musicians. all or musicians or all or musicians, all of which

Answer Choices

  • NO CHANGE

  • musicians. All

  • musicians

  • all

  • musicians, all of which

Explanation for Question 11 From the Writing Section on the 2020 October Sat

So question 11 has given us a sense and they're asking us if we 2 should try to split it up with a comma semi-colon or different, 3 or a period of semi culinary comma, or if we should leave it as 4 is with no punctuation. So let's go ahead and read the sentence. 5 It says a live performances studio audiences, 6 and the careers of individual musicians all rely on instrument technicians to keep equipment 7 in top shape and the music playing on. 8 So this is what we have as is. 9 And if we look at the sentence and think about the subject and the 10 verb, we can see that the verb is rely and the subject is 11 all of these three things together, collectively they're the subject. 12 And they all rely on instrument technicians. 13 So I only have one subject. We only have one verb here. 14 And so what it seems to be is just one independent clause. 15 And so we never really need to separate anything in an independent clause with 16 a period or semi-colon or comma. 17 And so a probably sounds just fine and good, 18 but we can also go through and verify this by eliminating the other answer 19 choices. And so B puts a period right here in the middle 20 of the sentence. And so if we go up to where the period would 21 be, then whatever's highlighted in green. 22 Here should be a complete sentence right now. 23 If we read that, it just says, live performances, studio, 24 audiences, and careers of individual musicians. 25 And so we see that this is just a list of three subjects, 26 right? Th...

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