Answer Choices
summer, following
summer, and this thawing follows
summer, and such thawing follows
summer and this evidence follows
Explanation for Question 13 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 1
So in number 13, we're asked to combine the two sentences. 2 And the one thing you want to be wary of when you're trying to 3 combine sentences is that you don't want to be repetitive. 4 You want to try your best, not to say the same words twice. 5 And if we look in our sentence right here, 6 we talk about thawing. And now if we look at B and C, 7 we see that both of them refer to the thawing again, 8 and this is unnecessary, right? Because we've already said these words. 9 And so we don't want to say them a second time. There's probably a 10 way to combine the sentences without saying thawing twice. 11 And so BNC, although they're grammatically correct, 12 they have a comma and separating two independent clauses. 13 They are repetitive. And so that's why they're incorrect. 14 Now D is grammatically incorrect because the has an independent clause and an independent 15 clause, and it just puts a conjunction. 16 It only puts the, and what's missing is the comma. 17 So to make D correct, we would have needed a comma. 18 Now a is going to be our correct answer because first off it's grammatically 19 correct. We have an independent clause. And then we have a dependent clause starting 20 with a comma, a comma, starting with a verb that has an ING, 21 right? And when you see that ING verb, 22 we can put a comma beforehand. So this comment is correct. 23 And also a is not repetitive. It doesn't say thawing twice, 24 which is what we like to see. And so a is going to be 25 our best answer.