[Video] Q22: No change or food such as: or food such as, or food, such as

Explanation for Question 22 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Now looking at number 22, our best answer is D right with the comma 2 before such as reason being, 3 because if I split my sentence up into its two clauses with the comma 4 only before, such as what I have in the blue part, 5 here is an independent clause. The subject is proponents. 6 The verb is R and it's also a complete thought. 7 So I have an IC and then what's here in purple is a dependent 8 clause because if we read it right, 9 it lacks the subject. And when you have an IC followed by a DC, 10 right, you can put a comma in between, 11 especially if you have a transition word like such as, 12 or for example, another one would have been, 13 which you would put a comma in. Um, 14 so because we have the transition words such as we put a comma between 15 the two, and that allows us to choose answer choice D and 16 now, if we look at a right, we can see why a is incorrect, 17 because a puts two commas around such as, 18 and when you do that, you're creating and a positive phrase, 19 which in this case would be such as, and a positive phrases work so 20 that you should be able to eliminate from them from the sentence. 21 And the sentence still needs to make sense. 22 So if I read the sentence now, without such as it just says, 23 proponents of organic food, of course are quick to add that there are numerous 24 other reasons to buy organic food, a desire to protect the environment, 25 right? And I can go on and keep reading. But from there we see 26 the sentence no longer make ...