[Video] Q24: No change or and also illustrates or but also illustrates or illustrating

Explanation for Question 24 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

So now we're looking at number 24. Um, 2 and so first I'll show you what our best answer is and why, 3 and then I'll go into why the other answers are wrong. 4 But our good answer here is going to be C but also illustrates, 5 um, reason being, because if we split the sentence up into two parts 6 up until the underline and then the underline, 7 and after you'll see that what we have here in green, 8 it says that research on regional variations in English language use is not only 9 yielded, um, to such an you'll have answers to such intriguing questions 10 as how people in different parts of the United States refer to carbonated beverages. 11 Right? And so this is a, um, 12 this is a dependent clause. It's a dependent clause here. 13 And what I really want to point out is the use of a particular 14 phrase that's really important. 15 Um, and that's going to be not only right, 16 so we'll come to not only later, but for now, I want to point 17 out that what we have here is a dependent clause. And then in orange, 18 we have it also illustrates how technology can change the very nature of research. 19 That's an independent clause, right? Complete sense. 20 Here's our subject, here's our verb. And if I have a dependent clause followed 21 by an independent clause, I always need to comma. 22 But if we look at what we actually have here, 23 there's no comma. So a can't function, 24 it would've needed the comma to work. Right. 25 And so that's actually the same thing that's happening he...