[Video] Q26: No change or equipment, such as: or equipment such as: or equipment, such as,

Explanation for Question 26 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 1

Question number 26 is a punctuation question. 2 And we know this because if we just look in at our answer choices, 3 the only differences are in commas, colons, 4 and pieces of punctuation, just, just like that. 5 So that shows us that what we should really be focusing on here is 6 what types of clauses make up our sentence. 7 So if we look at our sentence for 26, 8 the first part says the spaces are usually stocked with standard office equipment, 9 comma, such as photocopiers printers and fax machines. 10 So now we have to ask ourselves, should we be putting commas here? 11 Should we be putting, uh, Colin's here? 12 And so now let's take a look at what we have as it is. 13 We just have a comma such as photocopiers, 14 um, printers and fax machines. 15 And so we need to think about, should there be a comma here? 16 And the answer is yes, right? 17 Because this first part here is the spaces are usually stocked with standard office 18 equipment. That's an independent clause. And then afterwards we have a list, 19 right? Uh, such as this is a dependent clause and we do need a 20 comma here because of the such as it shows that we're kind of giving 21 an example. Right? And so whenever you have that, 22 such as you want to put a comma in front of it, 23 because it's a separate idea from the independent clause. 24 So we do want this comma here, so we can think about answer choice 25 C being incorrect, because it doesn't have the comma. 26 So now the question is, do we want to put a...