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Explanation for Question 24 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

24 says to counter the rise of fast food and fast life, 2 a cohort of chefs, journalists, 3 and sociologists spearheaded, 4 a slow food movement, declaring loyalty to unhurried enjoyment. 5 All right. So in this question, we're dealing with punctuation in this underlined part, 6 you can use a comma, a semi-colon a colon or a period. 7 Whenever we have to pick the proper punctuation to use, 8 it always helps to know your different clause types. 9 A clause is a group of words that has a subject and a verb, 10 and you can have two types of clauses. 11 You can have an independent clause, 12 and that is essentially something that can stand alone as its own sentence. 13 The other type of clause is a dependent clause where you may have heard 14 subordinate clause, which has a subject and a verb. 15 Yet it can't stand alone as its own sentence. 16 So not sentence. So let's take a look at what different clauses 17 we have in sentence 24. 18 So it starts by saying to counter the rise of the fast food and 19 fast life. Is that 20 a clause, remember clauses have to have a subject 21 and a verb. If it doesn't have a subject or it doesn't have a 22 verb that just makes it a phrase. 23 I see a verb here, right? 24 Counter the rise of fast food and fast life. 25 But who's doing the countering. It looks like we don't even have a subject 26 here. So this bracketed part, that's just an introductory phrase, 27 not a clause. So I'm going to label this as phrase, 28 and now I'm going to look back ...