[Video] Q19: No change or but also helping or also helping or but they also helped

Explanation for Question 19 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3

Now for number 19, we start our sentence by saying not only were such 2 regulations meant to ensure the efficiency of the business and the safety of the 3 workers, but also helped, 4 um, to raise people's generally low opinion of the restaurant, 5 right? And so what we notice here is that what we have first, 6 not only were regulations meant to ensure the efficiency of 7 the business and the safety of the workers. 8 Um, so we can ask ourselves, is this an independent clause? 9 Is this a dependent clause? And we've looked closely at it, 10 right? And we try to find our subject and our verb. And we start 11 from the beginning, not only were such regulations meant to ensure the 12 safety of the workers. 13 So this is a dependent clause, mostly because it starts with not only, 14 not only were this, right, if you were just to say that as one 15 sentence, people would be confused because not only implies that there has to be 16 a second part. 17 Right. And so also the fact that we say not only shows 18 us that we kind of need to use the, a word, 19 like, but in our sense, right, 20 not only was this, but also this. 21 Um, and so the, but is really essential to functioning with the not only 22 and see lacks that so we can eliminate C um, 23 and when we say, but we have to introduce also what did the 24 helping, right? So if you just say, but also help readers are confused about 25 what did the helping, um, and we know that it was the regulations, 26 right? Which is a plural thing. ...