[Video] Q6: A) no change or b) popular—in fact— or c) popular or in fact, or d) popular in fact,

Explanation for Question 6 From the Writing Section on the 2021 May Sat (International)

Hey guys, tuition six is going to be dealing with the usage of semi-colons 2 as well as commas. So when you're starting a sentence with something like, 3 in fact, you're going to need a comment to follow it. 4 That's because the clause should be separated, 5 um, by the, um, introductory clause, 6 which is, um, a, uh, 7 it's not an independent clause to say. In fact, 8 you can't just say, in fact, not be a sentence when you introduce it 9 to a sentence and you add it on, you want to say in fact, 10 comma blank. So that's how you add. 11 In fact, there's a sentence that should always really be a comma following after 12 it. Another thing to know is that when we use a semi-colon, 13 what we're doing is we do that after we have a full independent clause 14 before another independent clause. So each of those can be sentences on their own. 15 An example is I just bought a cat the other day semi-colon it was 16 a gray cat. Those are sentences on their own, 17 and they have a related topic matter. So they should be connected by a 18 semi-colon. This is how you connect two independent clauses. 19 There are other ways to do it, but that's how you would use a 20 semi-colon. Um, taking a look at our answer choices here. 21 We see that the answer is a says, 22 the exhibits have proved very popular comma. 23 In fact, more than a million wishes have been written over the past 10 24 years. So the problem with this is, 25 first of all, there's no comma after in fact, 26 we would need a comma....