[Video] Q14: No change or entrepreneur: or entrepreneur or he or entrepreneur,

Answer Choices

  • NO CHANGE

  • entrepreneur:

  • entrepreneur

  • he

  • entrepreneur,

Explanation for Question 14 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3

Now looking at number 14, um, 2 we see that this is a punctuation question. 3 And so the best way to go about this question then is going to 4 be process of elimination. And if we look before our punctuation, 5 right, we see that for number 13, 6 we said the capitalize on the man for good food. 7 So the sentence was breed to capitalize on the demand for good food, 8 Fred Harvey and English born entrepreneur. 9 And so this is going to be a dependent clause, 10 right? That's the start because we have Fred Harvey who is our subject, 11 but we don't have a verb. We don't know what Fred Harvey did. 12 Right. So there's nothing there. 13 And then it says afterwards, he decided to open his own small restaurant. 14 So then we haven't. I see. And so what we're really trying to do 15 here is find a way, um, to connect these two together. 16 And what you can notice is that there's a comma up here, 17 right? And so why would there be a comma up there? 18 That's going to be, to introduce an, a positive phrase, 19 which I'll write up here for you a positive, 20 which is basically a phrase to introduce this extra information, 21 but it's not really important or extremely important. 22 So we set it off with commas, right? 23 So our positive phrase here is an English born entrepreneur, 24 which shows that we do in fact need to have a comma there. 25 Right? We can't use a, um, 26 because a period would have required two independent clauses and we have a dependent 27 clause. Same reason we can'...

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