[Video] Q16: No change or contend or then or contend then or contend, then

Explanation for Question 16 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

Number 16 is dealing with this portion right here. 2 So let's read the full part that it includes. 3 It starts all the way over here with its employees. 4 Find themselves falling behind in the workplace. 5 These critics contend than it is the duty of those employees to identify and 6 even pay for appropriate resources to show them how and why they're falling behind 7 and what they should do about it. All right. 8 All of our enterprises are the same words, 9 but with different punctuation. So with this question, 10 we're going to be dealing a lot with claws types and phrases. 11 I'm just going to point them out. As I see them. The first thing 12 I see is this phrase, these critics contend that 13 right there is acting as an interjection. 14 This phrase right here is an interjection. The sentence would work just fine, 15 without it, for example, if we didn't have it, 16 it's a simple if then statement, I'm sure you've seen those before. 17 If these employees find themselves falling behind in the workplace, 18 then it's the duty of those employees to, 19 and then the rest of the sentence goes on. And with any type 20 of interjection, whether it's a word or a phrase like this, 21 we need to offset it with punctuation marks. 22 We have to offset it with matching punctuation marks. 23 So that means that the punctuation on the left side has to match the 24 punctuation on the right side. And since we can't change 25 this calmer right here, we can only change the underlined portion. 2...