[Video] Q27: A) no change or b) asked the participants to rate on a scale of 1 to 7, or c) asked the participants: to rate on a scale of 1 to 7 or d) asked the participants to rate on a scale of 1 to 7

Explanation for Question 27 From the Writing Section on the 2021 May Sat (International)

Hey guys. So pushing 27 says, 2 uh, the researchers then blink their likelihood of purchasing the product with one, 3 indicating that they were not at all likely and seven, 4 that they were very likely to do. So, so at the sentence is asking 5 us is how are we including this extra bit of information that the researchers 6 asked the participants to rate on a scale of one to seven, 7 uh, likelihood. So we need to do here is figure out well, 8 which option is going to include this information properly within the sentence. 9 And what's gonna be confusing with this one is the fact that like, 10 you're going to try and think like, well, what kind of information is this? 11 But all of a sudden, it's not an, a positive, 12 so it doesn't need to be surrounded by double commons. 13 And it's not a dependent clause of its own. 14 Um, it's just part of this independent clause here. 15 That's telling us the researchers then asked the participants to rate on a scale 16 of one to seven, their likelihood of purchasing the product. 17 So we don't need to necessarily, 18 um, like add in extra punctuation here when you really need to do 19 is eliminate punctuation because this, this just flows as a sentence on its own. 20 It's not, um, on a scale of one to seven, 21 isn't renaming the rating. 22 Um, so it's not in a positive and it's not a different sentence of 23 its own that needs to be separated by commas. 24 So based off of that, we can be confident option D which simply says 25 the research...