[Video] Q15: No change or box an associate professor of geology at ohio state, or box, an associate professor of geology at ohio state, or box, an associate professor of geology, at ohio state

Explanation for Question 15 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 1

So number 15 looks to be a punctuation question. 2 We're trying to decide where we should put our commas. 3 And now if we read our sentence, it says the summer of 2012 was 4 the warmest and 170 years records show. 5 But Jason box and associate professor of geology at Ohio state believes that another 6 factor added to the early thought, right? 7 So here, we're talking about Jason box and then our next 8 piece of the sentence, our next phrase describes Jason box. 9 He's an associate professor at Ohio state. 10 And what we should immediately think about is this is an, 11 a positive phrase, a positive, 12 because it adds extra non-essential information, 13 not essential information, right? If we know Jason Box's name, 14 then it's implied because we actually got his name, 15 the most specific piece of information that he would be an associate professor of 16 geology at Ohio state. But the writer is adding this on, 17 even though it's not essential to the sentence to boost his credibility. 18 And when you do something like this, when you have a name and then 19 you describe their position, it always goes in an, 20 a positive phrase. And when you have in a positive phrase, 21 you need to put whatever you're saying with commas on both sides or dashes 22 on both sides. And so the issue with a is that they haven't put 23 the closing comment. They didn't put the second comma. 24 Now, if we look at B, they didn't put the first comment. 25 They only put the last comma. And again, you nee...