[Video] Q13: No change or fields or fields, or fields

Explanation for Question 13 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

13 says to perform their jobs successfully in this dynamic environment 2 workers in many fields from social services to manufacturing must continually 3 acquire relevant knowledge and update key skills. 4 So for this one, the only difference between our answer choices is 5 the punctuation mark or lack thereof after the word fields. 6 So let's take a closer look at the structure of the sentence. 7 We have a lot of punctuation marks, 8 a lot of pausing, and you can tell that the pausing fits because when 9 we read the sentence aloud or when you read it in your head with 10 those pauses there, it makes sense. 11 So what's going on in this part right here, we're adding a pause before 12 this phrase from social services to manufacturing and 13 that phrase from social services to manufacturing, 14 that's kind of like an interjection. 15 That phrase is just kind of thrown into the middle of a sentence. 16 And you can tell us an interjection because if we were to get rid 17 of it, the sentence would read just fine, 18 right? It would say to perform their jobs successfully in this dynamic environment, 19 workers in many fields must continually acquire relevant knowledge and update key skills. 20 Right? It sounds just fine without the phrase. But if we do want to 21 put in the phrase, we need to figure out how to punctuate that. 22 So whenever you have a phrase that's kind of thrown in there and interjection, 23 you need to offset it by sandwiching it between two matching 24 punctuatio...