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Explanation for Question 22 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7
22 reads. Employers can also identify which employees have successfully 2 completed instructional modules and which need to be offered additional training. 3 So this question deals with a lot of different punctuation marks. 4 As we can see, we can do a comma, colon, 5 no punctuation, or a dash punctuation marks are often used 6 to put pauses in our writing. 7 And sometimes you can determine whether a punctuation is needed by just reading your 8 sentence with, and without those punctuation pauses does see if it flows. 9 Usually this intuitive method works, 10 but there are more technical rules that we'll get into. 11 So one helpful thing for punctuation marks is to understand your different 12 clause types. A clause is a group of words that includes a subject 13 and a verb. So there's two types of clauses. 14 We have independent clauses, which are essentially just sentences. 15 They can stand alone as their own sentence. 16 We can also have dependent clauses. 17 You may have also heard them as subordinate clauses that also have a subject 18 and a verb, except they can't stand alone as their own sentence. 19 It's not a sentence. So let's look at our 20 sentence 22 and identify some clauses. 21 So since we have a punctuation mark here, or one of these, 22 we don't know yet, we can infer that this part right here is going 23 to be one clause. So let's test that. It says employers can also identify 24 it has a subject. It has a verb. 25 So it is a clause and that can stand alone a...