[Video] Q35: No change or elements: the settings, characters, and plots that make each game unique— or elements—the settings, characters, and plots that make each game unique— or elements; the settings, characters, and plots that make each game unique

Explanation for Question 35 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Now question number 35 is a punctuation question. 2 We see it down here where it says 13. 3 And so we're really going to take this step by step and go process 4 of elimination. Um, so we'll start with a, 5 it says the designer envisions the games, fundamental elements, 6 the settings, elements, characters, and plot that make the game unique and is thus 7 the primary creative force behind the game. 8 And we see that they use a colon here and now in order to 9 use the colon, what comes before must be an independent clause. 10 And what comes after must also be an independent clause here. 11 Sometimes you can have a dependent clause after the colon, 12 but that only works as if it's a less than I'll show you why. 13 That's not the case here. Now our orange part says the designer envisions the 14 game's fundamental elements. It has a subject, 15 it has a verb. 16 It's a complete thought. So that makes it an independent clause. 17 But what comes after is only partially a list, 18 right? It says the settings characters and plots that make each game unique. 19 Um, and so you see that part is a list which could have worked 20 if they put a period here, however, 21 they continue the sentence, right? So this isn't really a list. 22 And what we have afterwards is a dependent clause because this first part, 23 um, is not an independent clause. It's a dependent clause, 24 um, that doesn't really have a verb, 25 right? What do the setting characters and plots do? 26 So we have a dependent c...