[Video] Q29: No change or pears, for instance: or pears for instance, or pears. for instance,

Explanation for Question 29 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3

So now we're looking at question number 29 before our punctuation. 2 We see that says, take Bartlett pears, 3 for instance, and this is actually going to be a complete sentence. 4 It's an independent clause. And that may be tough to see because we don't 5 see, you know, who is taking the pairs. Right? 6 Whereas our subject, the sentence is actually a command it's telling the reader to 7 take pairs for instance. Right? So, 8 because it's a command, the subject is implicit, 9 right? It's the reader who is, should be taking the pairs, 10 uh, for instance. And so what we have, 11 there is an independent clause. And then afterwards it says, 12 unless they are treated with exactly the right amount of MCP at the right 13 time, they will remain Harding green until rut and customers, 14 customers who experienced this will be unlikely to purchase them again. 15 That's another complete sentence. Um, 16 we have, they are being our subject in our verb. 17 We have a complete thought afterwards. And so we noticed, 18 right, as the sentence is written for a, we have two ICS with just 19 the common between, and that's never allowed. 20 That's what we call a comma splice, a major error in grammar. 21 What you need is also a comma and a conjunction, 22 but since there is no conjunction, that means the a is incorrect. 23 Um, now B B separates them with a colon and we should know that 24 a colon can be used to separate two independent clauses. 25 So that is reason enough to keep answer choice B i...