[Video] Q19: No change or include or including or has included

Explanation for Question 19 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

19 says the most common forms of professional development provided 2 to employees includes coaching, 3 mentoring, technical assistance, 4 and workshops, and looking at this underlined part, 5 as well as the answer choices we see that we have to pick a 6 form of the verb include or includes including has included. 7 So to pick a verb, it would first be really helpful to identify the 8 subject of the sentence. From there, 9 we can then pick a verb. So we know that the subject of the 10 sentence is going to fall somewhere before this verb, 11 right? There's a lot of words that we've underlined. 12 So we have to be able to cut out stuff that is not part 13 of our subject. The first step that I like to take is always hunt 14 for those prepositions and propositional phrases. 15 I see a really common preposition right here of, 16 so this prepositional phrase of professional development, 17 we can just ignore that. 18 That's not part of our subject. I see one more propositional phrase right 19 here with this other common preposition to so two employees can 20 also just be ignored right now. Now we're just left with the most 21 common forms provided. We know that our subject 22 has to be a noun. It has to be a thing. 23 And I see some extra words like common. 24 That's an adjective that modifies forms. 25 So that's not going to be part of our subject. I also see this 26 word most that modifies our word common, 27 right? Most common, most common forms. 28 So we can actually just ignore...