[Video] Q5: No change or are or is being or have been

Explanation for Question 5 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3

Now number five, which they had incorrectly labeled as number three, 2 in this version of the test. Um, but this looks like we have the 3 same version of the verb, right. Or rather the same verb in different versions 4 we have is R is being have been. 5 So these are all versions of the verb to be right. 6 And so let's go ahead. Let's just read our sentence, 7 which says like any other health problems, 8 like any other health problems, these ailments can increase employee absenteeism, 9 which in turn blank costly for employers. 10 Right? And so our question is what is costly for 11 employers? And so what we need to know first off, 12 um, is what is the subject? 13 What is costly? And when we look at our sentence, 14 like any other health problems, that's our introductory phrase. 15 These ailments can increase employee abs absenteeism, 16 which in turn is costly for employers. 17 And so our question is, what are we talking about? What is costly? 18 And so the answer is going to be the absenteeism, 19 right? Because we see the intern isn't being costly for each other. 20 It's what we talked about before, which can increase absenteeism, 21 which is costly. So absenteeism, 22 that's a singular word, right? 23 And so since we have a singular word here, we want the singular version 24 of the verb, which is just, 25 is, and so that's why five is going to be a, 26 because we don't need to change our is going to be the plural version. 27 So that won't work, um, is being what it makes s...